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

An educational lab within the United Arab Emirates at the moment launched a man-made intelligence world mannequin and agent, two massive language fashions (LLMs), and a brand new analysis middle in Silicon Valley because the nation ramps up its funding within the subject.

The UAE’s Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) revealed an AI world mannequin referred to as PAN, which can be utilized to construct bodily sensible simulations for testing and honing the efficiency of AI brokers.

Eric Xing, president and professor of MBZUAI and a number one AI researcher, revealed the fashions and lab on the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, at the moment. The UAE has made huge investments in AI in recent times underneath the steerage of Sheikh Tahnoun bin Zayed al Nahyan, the nation’s tech-savvy nationwide safety adviser and youthful brother of president Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan.

Xing says the UAE’s new middle in Sunnyvale, California, will assist the nation faucet into the world’s most concentrated supply of AI information and expertise. “We’re creating pathways for knowledge exchange with leading institutions and accessing a talent pool that understands how to scale research into real-world applications,” Xing mentioned in an announcement.

MBZUAI at the moment additionally revealed ​​PAN-Agent, an experimental AI agent educated to carry out reasoning duties inside the PAN world mannequin. MBZAUI says AI researchers will have the ability to use PAN to check brokers in simulated real-world eventualities, together with self-driving automobiles on digital roads.

An illustration at at the moment’s occasion confirmed PAN getting used to simulate self-driving automobiles navigating busy roads, drones flying via unfamiliar species, and robots working inside home environments.

Many AI researchers imagine that “world models” like PAN will likely be essential to constructing extra superior AI programs, together with digital assistants and robots able to working in unfamiliar environments. Earlier this week, Google’s AI lead, Demis Hassabis, harassed the significance of world modeling to his firm’s AI plans.

Besides the brand new world mannequin, MBZUAI introduced two new massive language fashions (LLMs) at at the moment’s occasion. K2, a 65-billion parameter mannequin optimized for reasoning duties, was educated on 80 A100 chips utilizing Nvidia’s DGX Cloud, developed utilizing 35 p.c much less compute than Meta’s Llama 2 on the similar measurement, Xing says. MBZUAI additionally revealed Jais, which it says is the world’s most superior Arabic-language LLM.

President Donald Trump traveled to the Middle East this month to dealer offers involving US firms and Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Qatar.

Deals involving US tech giants, together with Nvidia, AMD, AWS, and Qualcomm, may assist propel a growth for the area’s fledgling AI trade by offering essential AI chips and knowledge middle capability. The offers are additionally strategically essential for the US authorities as a result of they promise to increase US technological affect forward of key rival China.

Trump mentioned in Abu Dhabi this month that a number of unnamed US firms would work with the UAE to construct the most important AI knowledge middle cluster outdoors of America. The deal will contain an association designed to stop the chip or compute energy being utilized by China.