A United Arab Emirates Lab Announces Frontier AI Projects—and a New Outpost in Silicon Valley

An academic lab in the United Arab Emirates today launched an artificial intelligence world model and agent, two large language models (LLMs), and a new research center in Silicon Valley as the country ramps up its investment in the field. The UAE’s Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) revealed an AI world model called PAN, which can be used to build physically realistic simulations for testing and honing the performance of AI agents. Eric Xing, president and professor of MBZUAI and a leading AI researcher, revealed the models and lab at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, today. The UAE has made big investments in AI in recent years under the guidance of Sheikh Tahnoun bin Zayed al Nahyan, the nation’s tech-savvy national security adviser and younger brother of president Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan. Xing says the UAE’s new center in Sunnyvale, California, will help the nation tap into the world’s most concentrated source of AI knowl ... Read full article.