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Sovereign & government AI · Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
G42 is the anchor of the UAE's bet that a small, oil-wealthy nation can become a genuine AI infrastructure power - through direct partnerships with OpenAI, Microsoft, Nvidia and, after 2024, the US government itself - rather than only a customer of AI built elsewhere.
G42 was founded in Abu Dhabi in 2018 and has grown into the UAE's largest AI group, operating through subsidiaries that span sovereign cloud infrastructure (Core42), public-sector big data analytics (Presight, separately listed on the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange), foundational AI research (Inception), healthcare AI (M42) and cybersecurity (CPX), among others. The company is chaired by Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, UAE National Security Advisor, and led operationally by founder and Group CEO Peng Xiao.
G42 sits at the centre of the UAE's national AI strategy: it is the developer of the Falcon-adjacent Jais and other Arabic-language models through Inception, a partner in the Stargate UAE compute cluster at Masdar City, and - after a 2024 agreement addressing US national-security concerns over its historical ties to Chinese technology suppliers - a formal US AI-infrastructure partner, deploying what it calls "sovereign AI" through Core42 across a network it terms the "Pax Silica", from Kenya to Vietnam and India.
Core42
Sovereign cloud and AI infrastructure subsidiary.
core42.ai (opens in a new tab)Presight
Public-sector big-data analytics subsidiary, listed on the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange.
presight.ai (opens in a new tab)Inception
AI research subsidiary focused on foundational and Arabic-language models.
M42
Healthcare AI subsidiary.
G42's sovereign cloud and AI infrastructure company, building national-scale compute for governments and enterprises in the UAE, the US and beyond.
G42's publicly listed big-data analytics subsidiary, and only the second technology company ever listed on the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange.
The maker of ChatGPT and the GPT model family, and the company most responsible for the current wave of consumer generative AI.
