On July 23, 2025, President Donald Trump publicly introduced his all-inclusive AI Action Plan, dramatically turning the tables on America’s artificial intelligence policy. His Excellency Yousef Al Otaiba, who is the Ambassador of the UAE in the US, was quick to endorse the plan and convey that the UAE was willing to speed up its strategic AI collaboration with America. This innovative partnership is the first step into one of the biggest alliances in modern technology history between American innovation and investment in the Middle East.
President Trump repeatedly stressed that the reduced number of regulations will enable the United States to win in the race of artificial intelligence. In the process of doing whatever it takes to win the AI race, Trump signed three executive orders that concentrate on American workers, free speech, and safeness of U.S. technologies.
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UAE’s Immediate Endorsement and Strategic Partnership Acceleration
According to Ambassador Yousef al-Otaiba, based on the trillion-dollar investment by the UAE in the United States, AI and technology are connecting the two countries as a part of the $1.4 trillion investment game plan, which is productive in terms of reinforcing American energy and computing infrastructure, enabling employment opportunities, and the economy. The Ambassador reiterated, “We are also collaborating with major US firms to set up and embrace American technology within the UAE and beyond, being a trusted partner“.
Massive Chip Export Authorization: 500,000 Nvidia H100 Chips
The most important thing regarding the US-UAE AI collaboration is the fact that the UAE has been given the go-ahead to purchase upto 500,000 Nvidia H100 chips within 2025-2027. It will drive the revolutionary 5-gigawatt, 10-square-mile AI campus in Abu Dhabi, built in a collaboration between Emirati company G42 and the best technology players in the US.
It is an AI campus, which is going to be the biggest one outside the United States, and this is an indication of the intention of the USA to share the latest technologies only with the closest allies, such as the UAE.
$1.4 Trillion UAE Investment: Manufacturing Revival and Job Creation
The 10-year framework is a $1.4 trillion investment plan that focuses on US AI infrastructure, semiconductors, energy, manufacturing and rare-earth mining alliances. It is going to spend this huge sum of money and due to this, there are plans of full-scale rare-earth mining to catalyze the American manufacturing.
Such an investment at this level of investment has never occurred before, and it will help maintain many hundreds of thousands of American jobs in a mixture of high-tech and low-tech jobs, including artificial intelligence and output.
The revival of manufacturing part of the UAE investment is directly responsive to the American interest to stop overreliance on global supply chains, especially in terms of core technology components and rare-earth elements, which are used in the development of AI.