"I think concerns about chips coming to the Middle East and going to China are valid concerns for any country that has adversaries," he told Bloomberg, casting the UAE as a sort of exception to this.
"We think that the UAE has proven to be a strategic partner with the US. Sometimes you are a victim of the neighborhood you are in," he added.
Over the past few years, the UAE-backed G42 has emerged as an AI leader in the Mid-East region… US intelligence has reportedly raised red flags over G42's ties to Chinese firms, voicing fears it could be furnishing Chinese interests with the supercomputing power necessary to further Beijing's agenda.
Last summer, the US Commerce Department extended these export restrictions to several Mid-East countries after it was reported that Saudi Arabia and the UAE were buying up thousands of Nvidia's most powerful accelerators.
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