On November 2, 2026, Sheikh Khalid bin Mohammed bin Zayed, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, met with OpenAI CEO Sam Ultraman and subsequently witnessed the signing of four cooperation agreements. The signatories include Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, artificial intelligence group G42, sovereign investment firm Mubadala, and Abu Dhabi government departments. Artificial intelligence no longer stays in the showrooms of technology companies, but enters the actual operational systems of oil production, government approval, and sovereign fund investment.

Oil giants are the first to connect

Abu Dhabi National Oil Company has reached a multi-year energy cooperation agreement with OpenAI and G42, becoming the first energy company to deploy OpenAI's cutting-edge technology. The plan integrates decades of industrial data, covering thousands of oil wells, multiple oil and gas reservoirs, and hundreds of surface facilities, with the goal of compressing oil field development plans that used to take months to complete into hours. Another application utilizes interconnected AI intelligent agents to continuously analyze crude oil supply and demand, market prices, and profit margins, assisting in evaluating the overall commercial value from underground oil reservoirs to end customers. The relevant systems are running on the local computing facilities provided by G42 in the UAE, and major business decisions and data security are still the responsibility of Abu Dhabi National Oil Company.

Government approves the introduction of AI

The Abu Dhabi government and OpenAI have launched the world's first AI native machine-readable government project, converting some policies, legal regulations, and administrative rules into data formats that AI can directly process. Government officials can use the system to automatically assist in reviewing license applications, certificate issuance, and compliance requirements. The system can trace the specific rules on which each judgment is based, and the final decision is still the responsibility of government officials. The first pilot has been put into operation at the Abu Dhabi Agriculture and Food Safety Authority, mainly for food import supervision. The model is calculated in real-time through data centers within the United Arab Emirates and meets local requirements for government data management. Keywords: Middle East News Network, Artificial Intelligence, Energy Production

Sovereign funds invest with AI

Mubadala Investment Company has signed a cooperation agreement with OpenAI and Inception42, a subsidiary of G42, to apply advanced AI technology to investment analysis, opportunity identification, and risk assessment. Mubadala manages a global portfolio of technology, energy, finance, and industry investments, with each major investment involving market data, corporate finance, industry research, and risk assessment. After the introduction of AI, related technologies will assist investment teams in integrating research data, analyzing potential targets, evaluating market changes, and supporting asset allocation decisions. The fourth collaboration involves OpenAI and Inception42 signing a five-year agreement to jointly promote cutting-edge AI technology into UAE government agencies, large enterprises, and education systems. Inception42 provides localized consulting, technology implementation, and enterprise services.Editor/Gao Xue