GITEX 2025: Sam Altman Calls for Cheap, Plentiful AI to Close Global Gap
The ongoing tech meet acts as a platform to bring to light innovation that can change the future of mobility, communication, healthcare, and technology, to name a few.
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Sam Altman, co-founder and CEO, OpenAI, credit- GITEX Global YouTube
With the global AI market projected to touch $4.8 trillion by 2033, innovative solutions have become a need of the hour. Today, just having an AI offering won’t suffice. It needs to bring innovation and create value for citizens and customers globally.
The ongoing GITEX Global 2025 is a platform to bring to light innovation that can change the future of mobility, communication, healthcare, and technology, to name a few.
AI Divide, Strategic Partnership, and More
Day 2 kicked off with Peng Xiao, group CEO, G42, United Arab Emirates, and Sam Altman, co-founder and CEO, OpenAI, having shared their views about becoming AI-native societies and what the next era of intelligence can be.
“The best way to avoid an AI divide is to make the technology abundant and cheap, teach people how to use it, make it accessible to all, and have all countries embrace it. The UAE does a wonderful job showing the world what’s possible here,” said Altman on how to work towards avoiding an AI divide.
Xiao, on concerns around job losses, shared, “I don’t have an answer…We still put humans in the center of this revolution…I believe one day, as we get closer to superintelligence, there may be additional risks we need to address. The best way to do that is to try and experiment.”
Partnership on technologies has become a need of the hour and something that economies cannot afford to miss. Talal AlKaissi, EVP at Core42, and Danny Sebright, president of the U.S.-U.A.E. Business Council, shed light on the strategic partnership on AI between the UAE and US.
Following up on this, Dr. Andrew Jackson (G42 Chief AI Officer), Rod Solaimani (OpenAI Head of Policy), Mohannad Abuissa (CISCO MD & CTO), and Mohamed Taha Benssiba (Oracle Head of AI for MEA) dived deep into the Stargate UAE partnership network.
Chief of Tenstorrent, which builds computers for AI, Jim Keller, talked about taking control of one’s sovereign AI future.
Other sessions included those on enterprise AI, innovation powered by AI and Quantum computing; Government digitalization; data sovereignty in Enterprise AI; the future of music in the age of AI; and building the next-gen data centre.
A Demo of the Future
Day 1 of GITEX saw K2 showcase a complete ecosystem of intelligent automation, featuring Autonomous Taxi and Delivery Vehicles developed by AUTOGO; Unitree demonstrating the future of artificial limbs, from agile quadrupeds to highly dexterous robotic arms, and XPANCEO stepping into the future of XR with invisible, weightless smart lenses.
Meanwhile, Presight and the UAE Federal Public Prosecution announced “Bayan,” an advanced Smart Translation Centre enabling real-time judicial translation and multilingual collaboration, at the event.
”We remain an open platform for the world, for technologists, for thinkers….The UAE is a test lab for future technologies,” noted H.E. Abdulla Bin Touq Al Marri, Cabinet Member & Minister of Economy, UAE, in the inaugural session.
With 6,800+ tech enterprises, 2,000 startups, 1,200 investors, and delegations from 180+ countries, GITEX Global 2025 is underway till 17th October.
