Jaunt Donald Trump In the Middle East he contained the entourage of the billionaire Tech Bros, a Fighter-Jet Escortand business offers aimed at transforming the global landscape of artificial intelligence.
During the last stop in Abu, the US President announced that the unnamed American companies would cooperate with the United Arabs Emirates to create the largest AI Datacenter cluster outside America.
Trump said that American companies would support G42, Emirati, build five Gigawats computer skills AI in the United Arab Emirates.
Sheikh Tahnoon Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, who conducts artificial intelligence and an advanced technology council in the United Arab Emirates, and is responsible for $ 1.5 trillion a fortune to build AI’s ability, said that the movement will strengthen the Zea position “as a hub for the most modern research and balanced development, ensuring transformation benefits for humanity.”
A few days earlier, when Trump arrived in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia announced Humain, an investment company AI belonging to the Kingdom Public Investment Fund. The Saudi company began with hits, which are already widespread with NVIDIA, AMD, Qualcomm and AWS-Gigants technological capable of building infrastructure needed for training and the most contemporary AI models.
– said Trump in speech In Riyadh, American and Saudi companies would contain offers worth hundreds of billion dollars, with particular emphasis on infrastructure, technology and defense.
Agreements concluded in the Middle East this week are aimed at strengthening the global importance of American silicon and artificial intelligence, but they will also support nations such as Saudi Arabia play a more significant role in the global race in the development and distribution of the latest technology.
“It will help Saudi and Zea to become larger players in providing AI infrastructure,” says Paul Triolo, partner of DGA-Albright Stonebridge Group, a geopolitical consulting group. “It’s a great deal to access these GPUs.”
The Saudi Arabia agreement with NVIDIA, which dominates the AI training equipment market, will amount to 500 megawatts of capacity and includes “several hundred thousand of the most advanced NVIDIA graphics processors in the next five years,” said Wa statement.
According to one respectThis can translate into about 250,000 of the most advanced NVIDIA systems, which are four times better during training and 30 times better to apply (launched models that have already been trained) than the next best offer. This capacity can lead to Saudi Arabia to create AI Frontier models.
AWS and Humain said that they would invest $ 5 billion in infrastructure in Saudi Arabia together. AWS said in March that he would build an AI infrastructure area in the country, investing over $ 5.3 billion. Humain and AMD said they would spend $ 10 billion on AI infrastructure in Saudi Arabia and the United States over the next five years.
Saudi Arabia, ZAA and other nations in the region have huge amounts of oil money, access to high power and powerful desire to switch to more advanced technologies by building the latest technological infrastructure. However, countries also have significant business connections with China, which sells technology to the region, placing them on the relationship of growing geopolitical competition in the future AI.
Diffusion rule
A few days before Trump’s visit to the Middle East, his administration reversed a stern ruling from the time of Biden, which would limit the sale of the latest systems around the world. The directive created levels of nations with a different access to the latest tokens and tried to limit how many tokens Saudi Arabia and Zea could buy. Critics of the rules suggested that instead some countries can buy Chinese technology instead.
IN statement By announcing a change, the American Industry and Security Bureau stated that the biden principle “would suppress American innovations and burdened companies with new regulatory requirements” and “undermined diplomatic relations in the USA with dozens of countries, reducing them to second -level status.”