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SAMIHAH ZAMAN (ABU DHABI)
OpenAI co-founder and CEO Sam Altman has praised the UAE following the launch announcement of next-gen AI infrastructure cluster, Stargate UAE.
Posting on his social media platforms, Altman lauded the governments 'working to make this happen'.
"great to work with the UAE on our first international Stargate! appreciate the governments working together to make this happen," he posted.
The OpenAI head's post comes a day after he attended a partnership announcement in Abu Dhabi to launch Stargate UAE, a one-gigawatt compute cluster that will run in the new five-gigawatt AI campus being developed as part of a UAE-US collaboration.
Stargate UAE will be built by G42 and operated by OpenAI and Oracle. The collaboration will also include Cisco, offering its zero-trust security and AI-ready connectivity, and SoftBank Group, as well as NVIDIA which will supply the latest NVIDIA Grace Blackwell GB300 systems.
Altman also praised Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Ruler of Abu Dhabi and Board Chairman of the Artificial Intelligence Council.
"Sheikh Tahnoon has been a great supporter of OpenAI, a true believer in AGI, and a dear personal friend," Altman said.
Stargate UAE will provide best-in-class infrastructure, nation-scale compute, and low latency inferencing to deliver AI that will meet the demands of an increasingly intelligent world. The first 200-megawatt AI cluster is expected to go live in 2026.
The larger UAE–US AI Campus that will house Stargate UAE was announced last week in Abu Dhabi during US President Donald Trump's visit to the UAE capital. It builds on a new framework by the US and UAE governments, the US-UAE AI Acceleration Partnership, to deepen cooperation and collaboration on AI, and deliver safe, secure, and responsible tools that delivers long-term benefits for humanity.
