This photograph shows a view of Microsoft's logo on the company's French headquarters in Issy-les-Moulineaux on the outskirts of Paris on January 6, 2025. Martin Lelievre, AFP

This photograph shows a view of Microsoft's logo on the company's French headquarters in Issy-les-Moulineaux on the outskirts of Paris on January 6, 2025. (Photo by Martin LELIEVRE / AFP)

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<div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:960px"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/1739119298030AFP__20250107__36T443V__v1__Preview__FranceEconomy.jpg" style="width:960px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" alt="This photograph shows a view of Microsoft&#x27;s logo on the company&#x27;s French headquarters in Issy-les-Moulineaux on the outskirts of Paris on January 6, 2025. Martin Lelievre, AFP"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left">This photograph shows a view of Microsoft&#x27;s logo on the company&#x27;s French headquarters in Issy-les-Moulineaux on the outskirts of Paris on January 6, 2025. <em>Martin Lelievre, AFP</em></span></span></span></div><p>PARIS, France -- American tech giant Microsoft said Sunday that it would open a foundation to promote &quot;responsible&quot; artificial intelligence (AI) in the United Arab Emirates capital Abu Dhabi.</p><p>The foundation, in partnership with Emirati AI developer G42 and the Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), &quot;aims to promote responsible AI standards and best practices in the Middle East and Global South,&quot; Microsoft said ahead of an AI summit in Paris this week.</p><p>Microsoft said in April 2024 that it would invest $1.5 billion into G42, which is controlled by Tahnoon bin Zayed, brother of the Emirati president and the country&#x27;s national security advisor.</p><p>Meanwhile MBZUAI has taken a role in several initiatives launched around the Paris AI summit, which will gather political and tech business leaders as well as experts on Monday and Tuesday in the French capital.</p><p>The UAE is pushing for a leading role in the emergence of AI with multiple collaborations including in France.</p><div><a class="fr-green fr-strong" href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/technology/2025/2/7/ai-starts-to-help-india-s-struggling-farms-2132" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">READ: AI starts to help India&#x27;s struggling farms</a></div><div><a class="fr-green fr-strong" href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/technology/2025/2/5/google-pledge-against-using-ai-for-weapons-vanishes-1455">READ: Google pledge against using AI for weapons vanishes</a></div><p>Paris&#x27;s Polytechnique school has announced a research partnership with MBZUAI.</p><p>And Emirates leader Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan this week signed a deal with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron to build a vast AI campus and data center in France worth up to $50 billion.</p><p>France hopes the AI summit will help add to its tally of data centers, computer installations that offer processing power and storage capacity, and has offered prospective builders 35 sites &quot;ready for use&quot; across the country ahead of the event.</p><div><strong>© Agence France-Presse</strong></div>

<p>American tech giant Microsoft said Sunday that it would open a foundation to promote "responsible" artificial intelligence (AI) in the United Arab Emirates capital Abu Dhabi.</p>

American tech giant Microsoft said Sunday that it would open a foundation to promote "responsible" artificial intelligence (AI) in the United Arab Emirates capital Abu Dhabi.

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Microsoft to launch 'responsible AI' foundation in Abu Dhabi

Microsoft to launch 'responsible AI' foundation in Abu Dhabi

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Published Feb 10, 2025 03:00 AM PHT

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