A group of global tech giants gathered in Abu Dhabi to pose for a photo as an AI supergroup, including OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Oracle’s (ORCL) Larry Ellison, Nvidia’s (NVDA) Jensen Huang, and Chuck Robbins of Cisco (CSCO),

OpenAI, Cisco Systems (NASDAQ:CSCO) , SoftBank Group (OTCPK:SFTBY) (OTCPK:SFTBF) and G42 are collaborating to build Stargate UAE. In January, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, SoftBank's CEO Masayoshi Son and Oracle's Co-Founder and Chairman Larry Ellison joined U.

The first phase of that project will be the 1-gigawatt Stargate UAE project, built by state-backed UAE firm G42 in partnership with US firms OpenAI, Oracle, Nvidia and Cisco Systems, as well as Japan’s SoftBank Group.

Sam Altman, OpenAI's CEO, has spent more than a year evangelising for the global construction of huge data centers to help his company build powerful AI systems. The Emirati announcement is an indication that his wildly ambitious plan,

President Trump is bringing the massive Stargate AI project to the UAE, and with the help of OpenAI, they'll focus on new tech, data centers and other industrial capabilities.

OpenAI and Nvidia will join other companies to build Stargate UAE, an artificial intelligence infrastructure cluster, in a sister project to the recently unveiled push to expand AI infrastructure in the United States.

UAE launches AI data center project with backing from Nvidia, OpenAI, Oracle, and Cisco – linking new campus to the Stargate initiative in the US.

In a landmark move for artificial intelligence and international collaboration, G42, OpenAI, Oracle, NVIDIA, SoftBank Group, and Cisco announced their partnership to develop Stargate UAE, a next-generation AI compute cluster to be located at the newly established UAE–US AI Campus in Abu Dhabi.

Elon Musk, a cofounder-turned-critic of OpenAI, sued the company last year, alleging it had strayed from its mission of serving the public interest. On May 4, OpenAI reaffirmed that it would stay under nonprofit control,