NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang Advocates for National AI Sovereignty at World Governments Summit

At the World Governments Summit in Dubai, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang called attention to the critical need for countries to control their own AI and data, highlighting the transformative power of sovereign AI.

Speaking with the UAE’s Minister of AI, Omar Al Olama and attended by more than 4,000 delegates from 150 countries, he underlined the economic potential, particularly for the Middle East, citing a $320 billion boost by 2030.

“It codifies your culture, your society’s intelligence, your common sense, your history — you own your own data,” Huang told Al Olama.

“We completely subscribe to that vision,” said Al Olama. “That’s why the UAE is moving aggressively on creating large language models and mobilizing compute.”

Huang, on a global tour, advocated for building AI infrastructure and leveraging NVIDIA’s technology for innovation. The summit also showcased advancements in AI, including a partnership between Moro Hub and NVIDIA to build a green data center, underscoring the region’s growing focus on AI and smart technology.

Huang stated that adopting AI is neither expensive nor difficult. He suggested that the initial step should be to incorporate the language and data of a culture into a unique large language model. Furthermore, Huang mentioned that NVIDIA’s GPU is the sole platform accessible to everyone across various platforms, emphasizing its role in democratizing AI and sparking a wave of innovation across fields such as cloud computing, autonomous systems, and more.

“It is our job to create computing technologies that nobody has to program and that the programming language is human: everybody in the world is now a programmer — that is the miracle,” said Huang.