Overview
- Microsoft’s AI Diffusion Report places the UAE first with 59.4% of working‑age residents using AI at work, with Singapore second at 58.6% and global users topping 1.2 billion in under three years.
- Speakers warned that roughly half the world cannot use AI today, citing 700 million people without electricity, 2.6 billion without internet access, and 3.9 billion lacking digital skills.
- G42 said it is building up to five gigawatts of AI computing capacity in Abu Dhabi as executives argued that energy availability now sets the ceiling for scaling AI.
- Microsoft opened its first regional AI for Good Lab in Abu Dhabi to tackle projects such as climate resilience, public health analytics and language models for underrepresented dialects.
- UAE officials framed policy around improving quality of life and highlighted training drives, including teacher upskilling and a pledge to train one million people in AI by 2027, even as adoption in countries like Pakistan remains below 15%.