Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai, Chairman of The Executive Council of Dubai, and Chairman of the Higher Committee for Future Technology and Digital Economy, inaugurated the Dubai AI Campus cluster at the Innovation Hub, Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC). The move is part of phase one of the annual Dubai Universal Blueprint for Artificial Intelligence (DUB.AI).
Announced in 2023, the Dubai AI Campus is the largest dedicated cluster of AI in the MENA region. The launch contributes to boosting the objectives of D33. This includes generating an average of AED100 billion annually for Dubai’s economy through digital transformation. The new campus of DIFC also aligns with Dubai’s vision to emerge as the chosen destination among tech businesses. It will drive its contribution to innovation and tech integration across all sectors. Additionally, AI will contribute $230 billion to the Middle East’s economy by 2030. Nonetheless, this will create 14 per cent of the UAE’s GDP by 2030.
The Dubai AI Campus facilitates multinational tech partnerships with leading tech companies such as Amazon Web Services, HP, Microsoft, Oracle and Nvidia, who will join the cluster as key partners, further highlighting its empowering nature and making it home to the first innovation lab offering AI solutions to the UAE’s small businesses, in collaboration with du. Additionally, the cluster will provide high computing capabilities, including DGX platforms, and state-of-the-art business accelerator programmes that advance implementation of AI applications in the private sector.
