REPORTAGE – After eight years of massive investments in these technologies, Abu Dhabi is seeing the first results. Saudi Arabia wants to follow by devoting billions of dollars, but faces several obstacles.
Nights in a luxury hotel, attentive butlers, gala dinner and barbecue at a minister’s house: at the end of November 2024, the hundred foreign experts invited to Abu Dhabi to debate artificial intelligence (AI) are pampered like princes . Under the chandeliers of a palace overlooking the Persian Gulf, executives from Google, Amazon, Meta, professors from British and Chinese universities, founders of prominent start-ups, and deep-pocketed investors.
The conference aims to promote Falcon, an algorithmic model developed by the Emirates, whose computing power rivals Silicon Valley models like GPT or Claude. With this large language model, whose development costs amount to hundreds of millions of euros, the small Gulf country bursts into the league of AI powers, behind the United States and China but on an equal footing. with Europe. « Falcon is…
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