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UAE’s AI University Aims to Become Stanford of the Gulf
Mohamed bin Zayed University of AI is focused on building an engineering pipeline, incubating homegrown startups, and hypercharging the region’s AI development
The Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence in Abu Dhabi’s Masdar City. A few weeks before Donald Trump announced plans to lift semiconductor restrictions on the United Arab Emirates, a move with the potential to supercharge the region’s AI development, Eric Xing sat in his office in Abu Dhabi and discussed what the future might look like. During an interview with Bloomberg, Xing repeatedly mentioned his ambition of making MBZUAI the Stanford of the Gulf, pointing to the California school’s role in nurturing a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship whose effects have rippled far beyond Silicon Valley.
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