What is G42, Abu Dhabi's AI group
Founded in 2018, G42 spans sovereign AI, health, space and geospatial businesses, took Microsoft's $1.5 billion in 2024, and anchors the UAE side of the Stargate campus.
Tech & AI
Gulf technology agendas: Vision 2030 projects, startups, chips and AI adoption.
HUMAIN signs first US-based customer deal with Turing
Saudi Arabia's HUMAIN and Turing announced a partnership on March 26, 2026 described as HUMAIN's first US-based customer deal, extending the Saudi AI company's international reach.
The Arabic large language models: Falcon, Jais, ALLaM
Falcon from Abu Dhabi's TII, Jais from G42 and partners, and Saudi Arabia's ALLaM anchor a growing family of Arabic-first models, now distributed on global clouds.
The Gulf's semiconductor ambitions
Saudi Arabia's Alat targets $100 billion by 2030 with SoftBank as a cornerstone investor, while the UAE pairs Cerebras supercomputing with chip-design bets. How real are Gulf chips?
e& brings 5G security upgrade to MWC Barcelona
At MWC 2026, March 2-5, e& announced the selection of BroadForward's security platform for 5G roaming, the UAE operator's latest step in a security-first network strategy.
Which cloud regions operate in Saudi Arabia
Google Cloud opened Dammam in 2023, Oracle has invested over a billion dollars, Microsoft's availability zones are due and AWS lands a $5.3 billion region in December 2026.