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The development of sovereign artificial intelligence capability by Gulf states and its use in defense and national security, covering national AI companies, compute infrastructure, military and government AI applications, foreign technology partnerships, and ownership and control of AI firms.
GCC states are turning sovereign AI champions into defense and national-security infrastructure.
In the UAE, G42's ownership talks under Chairman Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed had moved by October 2026 toward a 51–60% US majority in a separate US-domiciled company holding its advanced computing infrastructure, while the EDGE-Leonardo joint venture offers an early indication of how Abu Dhabi will turn military AI ambitions into operational capability.
In Saudi Arabia, HUMAIN CEO Tareq Amin said in September 2026 that the venture fund first outlined at $10 billion for US, European and Asian start-ups would launch before year-end, as HUMAIN eyes acquisitions abroad; Defense Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman has approved controlled AI defense trials starting with SAMI-AEC; and SAMI is negotiating a Shield AI V-BAT purchase with separate Hivemind autonomy software licensing.
This topic page also tracks MGX, HUMAIN's NVIDIA DRIVE Hyperion and Mistral AI partnerships, ADNOC's system-level autonomy AI deployment, Aramco Digital's Dassault Systèmes digital-twin MoU, the UAE's Country Group A:5 access to US compute, RTS's cyber pillar and Kuwait's emerging AI vision.
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