With lofty ambitions and deeper pockets, the Gulf states are throwing all their might behind AI development, with Saudi Arabia recently pledging $600 billion to U.S. industries and $20 billion explicitly to AI data centers, and the UAE’s AI market slated to reach $46.3 billion by 2031 (20% of the country’s GDP). Among the Big Tech behemoths, the talent war is in full swing, as megalomaniac founders salivate at the bit to build AGI first, offering $100 million sign-on bonuses to experienced AI developers (who presumably never read the parable about the camel and the needle). “For me, it’s new, everything new of this kind is progress, and we have to cross that barrier and get to the next stage… I believe in the golden period of the future infinitely more than the golden period of the past.
Author: Christina Comben
Published at: 2025-06-29 21:00:41
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