Signed after Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed met OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman, the agreements span energy, government services, investment and education, with an AI-native government pilot starting in food imports.
Abu Dhabi and OpenAI signed four strategic agreements on 2 November, with Crown Prince Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed witnessing the ADNOC agreement after meeting OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman. Through G42 subsidiary Inception42, ADNOC becomes the first energy company to deploy OpenAI's frontier technology, using AI to support investment, commercial and operational decisions on UAE-based inference infrastructure.
A second agreement launches what is described as the world's first AI-native Machine-Readable Government initiative, turning policies and regulations into a format AI systems can read to speed up routine compliance checks such as permits, while officials keep the final decisions. The first pilot covers food imports with the Abu Dhabi Agriculture and Food Safety Authority.
Mubadala, Inception42 and OpenAI will apply AI to investment analysis and risk assessment, while a five-year agreement between Inception42 and OpenAI supports frontier AI adoption across government, business and education in the UAE.
المصدر: The National
