Head of Saudi tech institute pledges to limit China AI collaboration

Kaust’s new chief promises to stop any deals that jeopardise access to US-made chips

The new head of Saudi Arabia’s premier academic institution has promised to stop any artificial intelligence collaboration with China that could jeopardise the university’s access to US-made chips.

5bn in G42, the biggest AI company in the United Arab Emirates, said last month that it needed more “clarity and consistency” over when AI chips can be shipped to the region. Byrne’s predecessor, Tony Chan, who has now left Kaust, expanded collaborations with China, and there were particular concerns over a joint AI project with the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, and the Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data to build an Arabic-focused large language model called AceGPT.

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