Abu Dhabi is using OpenAI’s models to help officials check permit and certificate applications against the emirate’s rules. The Abu Dhabi Media Office said the pilot is already running on food imports, and that it is one of four OpenAI deals signed on Monday.
Crown Prince Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed watched the signings after meeting OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman. In a statement, Altman said, “Abu Dhabi and the UAE are setting a bold, global standard for AI integration across both the public and private sectors to make sure the benefits of AI reach everyone.”
Checking permits against the rules
What is the Machine-Readable Government initiative?
The Abu Dhabi Government calls the project the Machine-Readable Government initiative. The aim is to make the emirate the world’s first “AI-native” government. To get there, government policies and regulations are being converted into a form that AI systems can read.
How is Abu Dhabi using AI to check government permits?
The AI systems help officials with routine compliance checks, including those for permits and certificates. Each assessment can be traced back to the specific rule behind it. Officials keep oversight and make the final decisions, according to the statement.
The Department of Government Enablement leads the project. Its first pilot runs with the Abu Dhabi Agriculture and Food Safety Authority. The computing runs on GPUs in data centers inside the UAE, through OpenAI’s local inference service.
Investment and a five-year agreement
Mubadala, the emirate’s sovereign investor, signed a deal with OpenAI and Inception42, a subsidiary of G42. The partners will use AI for investment analysis, including finding opportunities and assessing risk.
Separately, Inception42 and OpenAI signed a five-year agreement to bring OpenAI’s models to government, businesses and schools in the UAE. The two companies will also build AI products for large UAE organizations.
The fourth deal makes ADNOC the first energy company to use OpenAI’s Frontier platform. G42 is also building OpenAI’s Stargate data center in the UAE.
Altman spoke at Adipec, the oil and gas conference held in Abu Dhabi, the same day. He said AI “is going to transform the economics of the energy world.”
“For a long time, the AI industry has talked about what it needs from the energy industry. And now I think we can repay the favor,” he added.
Altman said the world will need much more energy. He also described AI as less like a new industrial revolution and “much more like a new Renaissance.”
Abu Dhabi investors have backed both OpenAI and Anthropic. MGX co-led Anthropic’s $30 billion raise in February and OpenAI’s $122 billion raise in March, according to a CNBC report by Kai Nicol-Schwarz. OpenAI is now raising up to $20 billion in a new funding round, which investors from the UAE are co-leading, CNBC reported.
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