COUNTRY · AE

United Arab Emirates

Model development, business adoption and the research base behind them.

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Enterprise AI adoption

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Model catalogue

3 catalogue entries

Broader Epoch catalogue, including variants; not a complete model census.

Research base

1.49% of GDP

All R&D, not AI-only investment. Older observation; no newer value is inferred.

CATALOGUE COVERAGE / 2025

What this model count includes

3Entries in the broader Epoch catalogue
0Entries with a notability criterion

Same source, year and developer-country attribution. The broader catalogue includes versions and sizes. Neither number is the total number of models developed here.

Models behind the count

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Country research · captured 2026-10-22Data dates
MODEL DEVELOPMENT

United Arab Emirates in the model-building landscape

Annual notable-model entries · developer country · 2020–2025

International collaborations may appear in multiple countries. Counts are not additive market shares or a national AI-strength ranking.
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Epoch AI · CC BY 4.0 · Complete years through 2025 · incomplete 2026 excluded

RESEARCH CAPACITY · BROADER CONTEXT

The foundations around AI

These indicators describe all research and development, not AI-only expenditure or AI’s measured economic impact.

R&D expenditure

1.49% of GDP · all R&D · 2021 · United Arab Emirates

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Comparison uses 2021, the latest common year for this selection. The latest national observation above may be newer.

World Bank WDI / UNESCO Institute for Statistics · % of GDP · all R&D

R&D researchers

2,606.78per million people · all R&D · 2021 · United Arab Emirates

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Comparison uses 2016, the latest common year for this selection. The latest national observation above may be newer.

World Bank WDI / UNESCO Institute for Statistics · per million people · all R&D

Epoch AI · CC BY 4.0 · Model comparisons stop at 2025; incomplete 2026 is excluded. No forward-filled research observations.

No statistically compatible enterprise-adoption series is included for United Arab Emirates. Missing coverage is not zero adoption.

Models connected to United Arab Emirates

Epoch’s notable-model selection · developer country · international projects can appear in multiple countries

Falcon-180BTechnology Innovation InstituteJaisCerebras Systems,Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI),Inception G42Falcon-40BTechnology Innovation Institute
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Companies connected to this country

No companies from United Arab Emirates in the current curated selection. This does not imply an absence of AI activity.

Connections follow the company locations in our curated register, not model deployment location or national AI capability. Research-capacity indicators above describe all R&D; they do not isolate AI research.

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