Abu Dhabi and OpenAI sign four AI agreements

Abu Dhabi and OpenAI have signed four agreements covering government services, energy operations, investment analysis and wider artificial-intelligence adoption, including a food-import compliance pilot already in operation. The agreements bring OpenAI together with Abu Dhabi entities including the Abu Dhabi government, ADNOC and Mubadala. Crown Prince Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed met OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman before witnessing the signings on November 2, according to the Abu Dhabi Media Office. One agreement establishes the MachineReadable Government initiative, led by Abu Dhabi’s Department of Government Enablement. It converts selected government policies and regulations into machine-readable form so AI systems can help officials assess routine compliance requirements, including those for permits and certificates. Each assessment can be traced to the rule behind it, while officials retain oversight and make final decisions. The pilot is operating with the Abu Dhabi Agriculture and Food Safety Authority on food-import compliance. The system’s model processing runs on GPUs in data centres in the UAE through OpenAI’s local inference service, according to the...