Abu Dhabi Signs Four AI Deals With OpenAI Spanning Energy, Government and Investment
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Abu Dhabi's Crown Prince Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed witnessed the signing of an agreement between Adnoc, G42 and OpenAI, one of four deals the emirate concluded with the US company covering government services, energy, investment and a five-year frontier AI partnership.
Abu Dhabi's Crown Prince Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed met OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman on Monday and witnessed the signing of an agreement between Adnoc and OpenAI, arranged through G42's subsidiary Inception42. The deal makes Adnoc the first energy company to deploy OpenAI's Frontier platform, which runs on GPT models hosted on inference infrastructure within the UAE. OpenAI launched Frontier on 5 February as an enterprise platform for building, deploying and managing AI agents. That agreement was one of four signed between Abu Dhabi-based entities and OpenAI. In a separate deal, the Abu Dhabi government and OpenAI launched what they described as the world's first AI-native Machine-Readable Government initiative, converting policies and regulations into formats AI systems can read to support routine compliance tasks such as issuing permits and certificates. Officials retain oversight and accountability for final decisions. Led by the Department of Government Enablement, its first pilot is already running with the Abu Dhabi Agriculture and Food Safety Authority and focuses on food imports. A third agreement brings Mubadala, Inception42 and OpenAI together to apply AI to investment analysis, opportunity identification and risk assessment. The fourth is a five-year deal between Inception42 and OpenAI to support frontier AI adoption across UAE government, enterprise and education. The agreements build on an existing financial relationship: Abu Dhabi's MGX co-led OpenAI's $122 billion funding round, which closed on 31 March at an $852 billion post-money valuation.
