UAE’s AI University Aims to Become Stanford of the Gulf (1)

A few weeks before Donald Trump announced plans to lift semiconductor restrictions on the United Arab Emirates, a move with the potential to supercharge the region’s AI development, Eric Xing sat in his office in Abu Dhabi and discussed what the future might look like.

Xing, a computer scientist who previously taught at Stanford and Carnegie Mellon, is president of Mohamed bin Zayed University of AI, a six-year-old institution uniquely positioned to shape the coming AI boom. During an interview with Bloomberg, Xing repeatedly mentioned his ambition of making MBZUAI the Stanford of the Gulf, pointing to the California school’s role ...