OpenAI and Abu Dhabi entities sign four AI agreements

The Abu Dhabi Media Office said ADNOC would be the first company in the energy sector to deploy OpenAI’s frontier technology[1]. The multi-year partnership is intended to connect operational, capital and commercial decisions across ADNOC’s business[2]. It will run on G42’s sovereign AI infrastructure in the UAE, and human experts will oversee consequential decisions[2]. The application will integrate decades of data across thousands of wells, multiple stacked reservoirs and hundreds of surface facilities[2]. ADNOC says it will use that application to prepare and optimize full-field development master plans[2].

A second planned application will connect decisions across production, processing, refining, logistics, sales and trading[2]. ADNOC says interconnected AI agents will forecast crude oil supply, demand, prices and margins[2]. The partnership also includes strengthening ADNOC’s cyber defenses through OpenAI’s Daybreak Blue initiative[2]. ADNOC said it had rolled out ChatGPT Enterprise to more than 40,000 employees, with adoption above 97%[2]. The company said its existing AI and robotics strategy includes more than 200 AI applications and 70 robotics use cases deployed or under development[2].

Abu Dhabi’s government and OpenAI launched what the emirate described as the world’s first AI-native Machine-Readable Government initiative[1]. It converts selected policies and regulations into machine-readable form so AI systems can assist with routine compliance assessments[1]. The first pilot is in production at the Abu Dhabi Agriculture and Food Safety Authority and focuses on food imports; real-time model computation runs on GPUs in UAE data centers[1]. Separately, Mubadala, Inception42 and OpenAI signed an agreement covering AI for investment analysis, opportunity identification and risk assessment[1]. Inception42 and OpenAI also signed a five-year UAE AI-adoption agreement[1].

OpenAI says its Stargate UAE plan includes a 1-gigawatt cluster in Abu Dhabi, with 200 megawatts expected to go live in 2026[5]. The company described Stargate UAE as its first international deployment of the Stargate AI infrastructure platform[5]. CNBC reported that OpenAI was seeking $20 billion in a funding round co-led by UAE investors[3]. Separately, Semafor reported that no financial terms were disclosed for the ADNOC agreement[4]. Altman said the power needed to run AI could keep costs high and slow growth[4].