Microsoft has just announced they're going to be investing $1.5 billion into a UAE AI firm. So

today on the podcast, we're breaking down exactly what's going on with this deal, who they're

invested in, what they're, what's going on. And a bunch of the controversy that is surrounding

this because they literally had to get White House approval for this deal and it gets crazy. So

let's dive into it. The first thing I

want to say here is the company is G42. I'll dive into a little bit more about the company and

break down what they do later, but I wanted to go off and first say they're based in Abu Dhabi,

who of course is putting a huge emphasis right now on AI. I've talked to the bunch of people that

are over there and have said that

it's a huge emphasis that even like up to the top leaders in their company, in their country,

are really focusing on making sure that AI is a big priority and they're not getting left

behind in this. So they're making big moves, obviously $1.5 billion for a country. I mean,

if you look at their, if you look at

their like population size, like this is actually quite impressive, in my opinion. So they're

making some big moves. What is interesting, though, is that this firm, G42, is actually

under investigation from the U.S. for a bunch of its different ties to China. So because of this,

they had a lot of difficulties, I would say, getting this deal done.

But let's talk a little bit about the actual details and what's going on in this deal.

So the first thing to know is that Microsoft, in exchange for this, they're going to be getting

a minority stake. They're going to be getting a seat on the board of G42. And essentially,

G42 is going to be using them and mostly Microsoft Azure for their cloud

computing and for a lot of their cloud needs that are going to be in relation to like

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