Submission + - Will the Gulf's push for its own AI succeed? (theguardian.com)
mspohr writes: As the US becomes a more unstable place to immigrate to and start a company, all three major Gulf powers are making a show of their multibillion-dollar push into AI.
Last year, the UAE signed a deal with the US for advanced chips that will fill one of the largest datacenters in the world to be constructed outside Abu Dhabi. Saudi Arabia’s state-owned AI firm, Humain, has inked billions of dollars in deals to create a “full-stack AI ecosystem”, which is to say the kingdom wants its own datacenters, training data, cloud services, and AI models, perhaps even its own chips. The aim of sovereign AI – artificial intelligence under the control of its home country from tip to tail – is explicit.. For the construction of AI models, there is far less Arabic textual content online than English.
Last year, the UAE signed a deal with the US for advanced chips that will fill one of the largest datacenters in the world to be constructed outside Abu Dhabi. Saudi Arabia’s state-owned AI firm, Humain, has inked billions of dollars in deals to create a “full-stack AI ecosystem”, which is to say the kingdom wants its own datacenters, training data, cloud services, and AI models, perhaps even its own chips. The aim of sovereign AI – artificial intelligence under the control of its home country from tip to tail – is explicit.. For the construction of AI models, there is far less Arabic textual content online than English.
