00:00The Middle East is ditching oil for AI, and it's not just talk.
00:04The UAE and Saudi Arabia are pouring billions into becoming the world's third AI superpower after the U.S. and China.
00:11Microsoft alone is investing over $15 billion in the UAE,
00:15building mega data centers, and shipping in NVIDIA's most powerful chips.
00:19We're talking hundreds of thousands of AI accelerators
00:22and even a new data center the size of 26 square kilometers,
00:26powered like five nuclear reactors.
00:28Saudi Arabia is going even bigger with its own AI company, Humane,
00:32backed by the crown prince himself, and a goal to hit 6 gigawatts of data power.
00:37They've launched their own AI models too,
00:40like the UAE's K2 Sync, rivaling OpenAI's models with a fraction of the size.
00:45All this is happening while South Korea builds its own chip empire to compete.
00:49But here's the twist.
00:51U.S.-China tensions might throw a wrench into the Middle East AI dreams.
00:55Still, with oil money turning into AI power,
00:58the region might just reshape the future of technology.
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