OpenAI signs four Abu Dhabi deals spanning energy, government and investment as Altman visits UAE

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman met Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed and witnessed four agreements on Monday. ADNOC, G42 unit Inception42 and OpenAI agreed to deploy OpenAI's Frontier platform across ADNOC's operations on GPT models running on in-country inference infrastructure, making it the first energy company to do so. Mubadala will use OpenAI models for investment analysis and risk assessment, Abu Dhabi launched a 'machine-readable government' initiative with OpenAI, and Inception42 signed a five-year deal to roll out frontier AI across UAE government, enterprise and education. The deals come as OpenAI seeks up to $20 billion in a new funding round co-led by UAE investors, CNBC reported.