The Startup Scene in Abu Dhabi and Dubai is Bustling

I just landed back in New York after spending the past week in Dubai and Abu Dhabi, two important cities in a region undergoing a remarkable transformation into a global tech hub.

Government initiatives are propelling those changes, and those efforts seem to be paying off. Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, has become an important hub for artificial intelligence because of the success of the government-funded Arabic large language model Falcon and of artificial intelligence company …

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