The UAE’s Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence ( MBZUAI ) revealed an AI world model called PAN, which can be used to build physically realistic simulations for testing and honing the performance of AI agents.
Eric Xing, President and Professor of MBZUAI and a leading AI scholar, revealed the types and test at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California now. The UAE has made large purchases in AI in recent years under the direction of Sheikh Tahnoun bin Zayed al Nahyan, the world’s tech-savvy national security advisor and younger sibling of president Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan.
Xing says the UAE’s fresh facility in Sunnyvale, California, will help the nation plug into the nation’s most concentrated source of Artificial knowledge and talent. ” We’re creating processes for knowledge exchange with leading organizations and accessing a talent share that understands how to level research into real-world programs”, Xing said in an statement.
MBZUAI now also revealed PAN-Agent, an experimental AI representative trained to perform argument things within the PAN world design. MBZAUI says AI researchers will be able to employ PAN to examine officials in replicated real-world situations, including self-driving vehicles on digital roads.
A show at yesterday’s event showed PAN being used to create self-driving vehicles navigating busy roads, drones flying through new species, and robots operating within local environments.
Many AI researchers believe that “world models” like PAN will be crucial to building more advanced AI systems, including virtual assistants and robots capable of working in unfamiliar environments. Earlier this week, Google’s AI lead, Demis Hassabis, stressed the importance of world modeling to his company’s AI plans.
Besides the new world model, MBZUAI announced two new large language models ( LLMs) at today’s event. K2, a 65-billion parameter model optimized for reasoning tasks, was trained on 80 A100 chips using NVIDIA’s DGX Cloud, developed using 35 percent less compute than Meta’s Llama 2 at the same size, Xing says. MBZUAI also revealed Jais, which it says is the world’s most advanced Arabic-language LLM.
President Donald Trump traveled to the Middle East this month to broker deals involving US companies and Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Qatar.
Deals involving US tech giants, including Nvidia, AMD, AWS, and Qualcomm, could help propel a boom for the region’s fledgling AI industry by providing crucial AI chips and datacenter capacity. The deals are also strategically important for the US government because they promise to expand US technological influence ahead of key rival China.
Trump said in Abu Dhabi this month that several unnamed US companies would work with the UAE to build the largest AI datacenter cluster outside of America. The deal will involve an arrangement designed to prevent the chip or compute power being used by China.
