Simultaneously, Microsoft’s AI for Good Lab will open a centre in Abu Dhabi, its first in the Middle East. This new lab will harness the power of AI to collaborate with nonprofit organisations and partners, addressing key economic and societal challenges across the Middle East and Africa.

Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund Mubadala and U.S. private equity firm Silver Lake hold stakes in G42, whose chairman, Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, is the UAE's national security advisor and the president's brother.

Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) and United Arab Emirates-based AI company G42 will set up two centers in Abu Dhabi to advance responsible AI goals. The companies said the first — which will be co-founded and co-funded by the two parties,