OpenAI and UAE in Talks For Free ChatGPT Plus For All, Report Says (thenationalnews.com)
(Friday May 30, 2025 @11:25AM (msmash)
from the aggressive-expansion dept.)
- Reference: 0177867529
- News link: https://slashdot.org/story/25/05/30/147218/openai-and-uae-in-talks-for-free-chatgpt-plus-for-all-report-says
- Source link: https://www.thenationalnews.com/future/technology/2025/05/27/chatgpt-plus-uae-openai-deal/
An anonymous reader shares a report:
> Negotiations are under way between the UAE and OpenAI that may make the company's ChatGPT Plus artificial intelligence chatbot [1]available to all residents free of charge , though a final deal has not been reached.
>
> An agreement involving ChatGPT Plus would be part of the recently announced Stargate UAE infrastructure plan to create an AI hub in Abu Dhabi, according to a source familiar with the country's AI strategy. Abu Dhabi's AI company G42 has partnered with OpenAI, Oracle and Nvidia to set up Stargate UAE, a 1-gigawatt computing cluster that will operate in the newly established 5GW UAE -- US AI Campus.
[1] https://www.thenationalnews.com/future/technology/2025/05/27/chatgpt-plus-uae-openai-deal/
> Negotiations are under way between the UAE and OpenAI that may make the company's ChatGPT Plus artificial intelligence chatbot [1]available to all residents free of charge , though a final deal has not been reached.
>
> An agreement involving ChatGPT Plus would be part of the recently announced Stargate UAE infrastructure plan to create an AI hub in Abu Dhabi, according to a source familiar with the country's AI strategy. Abu Dhabi's AI company G42 has partnered with OpenAI, Oracle and Nvidia to set up Stargate UAE, a 1-gigawatt computing cluster that will operate in the newly established 5GW UAE -- US AI Campus.
[1] https://www.thenationalnews.com/future/technology/2025/05/27/chatgpt-plus-uae-openai-deal/
This is how some countries become superpowers... (Score:4, Interesting)
by ctilsie242 ( 4841247 )
This is what the US did in ages past. Invested in state of the art stuff, like electricity, plumbing, water/wastewater, etc. Texas had much of the state redone around lakes to deal with flooding, as well as provide a stable supply of fresh water. They invested... and the ROI was awesome, making towns like Austin actually doable.
You would never see that now. At best, money goes to private companies for stock buybacks.
If one compares the US to a farmer, the US isn't doing any tilling or dropping seed, and then wonders why there is no harvest to mention, all the while, China and other nations are actively seeding, fertilizing, etc.
Seems the UAE is starting to do do long term investments to ensure they have a future, post-oil.
Why not (Score:2)
When you have a quick glance at the sheer size of a solar facility at shams dewa anything is possible.