The $1.5 billion partnership with UAE's G42 is a big move on AI's geopolitical chessboard.
Microsoft's new $1.5 billion partnership with G42, a government-backed tech-investing giant in the UAE, marks a stunning move in AI's increasingly frantic global chess game.The deal enlarges America's AI tent and sidelines China from the UAE market while placing Microsoft's AI business at the heart of American geopolitical interests and policy.The deal was partly brokered by Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and hands Microsoft president Brad Smith a seat on the G42 board.
It also demonstrates the importance the U.S. government and big tech companies place on Gulf markets — for both geopolitical and financial reasons.Microsoft has worked furiously to avoid regulatory tangles after the U.S. government's epic effort to break up the company, beginning in 1997, failed. It also faced billions in EU antitrust fines levied between 2004 and 2013.
Peng Xiao, G42's CEO, was born in China — but after gaining U.S. citizenship, he renounced it in favor of Emirati citizenship, perin which a supercomputer called Deep Thought says 42 is the answer to "the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything.
Another source notes the changes could help make G42's services more palatable to the large Indian market than when they were seen as more aligned with China.After Microsoft's win, other tech giants with big government contracts — such as Google and Amazon —Share on facebook
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