• Qatar’s AI Ambitions Span the Tech Stack DOHA, Qatar - As nations around the world race to build sovereign AI industries, Qatar is investing its sovereign wealth into multiple levels of the AI stack with the vision of building a talent pipeline, attracting deep-tech startups, and building out AI data centers to serve local AI-based businesses. • “[Qatar] has a ton of energy, a lot of ambition, and a clarity of mission in terms of how they’re viewing the opportunity in AI,” Ayar Labs CEO Mark Wade told EE Times at Web Summit Qatar. • “We’re excited to tap into the region and start to partner here and figure out what that means for us.” TheQatari investment communitycertainly understands the issues with today’s compute stack, Wade said. • “I’ve been impressed by the clarity of their vision on where they want to focus their investments, and how they can partner with companies like Ayar Labs, potentially through investment, but also to make sure they understand important technologies throughout the stack,” Wade said. • Sovereign wealth funds in the region are looking to connect with companies in strategic technology sectors, which include co-packaged optics (CPO), he said. • “[CPO] is a difficult technology, but continuing to scale the AI workload in terms of more throughput per dollar, more throughput per watt-I think the entire industry is facing hard problems,” he said.

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  • DOHA, Qatar - As nations around the world race to build sovereign AI industries, Qatar is investing its sovereign wealth into multiple levels of the AI stack with the vision of building a talent pipeline, attracting deep-tech startups, and building out AI data centers to serve local AI-based businesses. “[Qatar] has a ton of energy, a lot of ambition, and a clarity of mission in terms of how they’re viewing the opportunity in AI,” Ayar Labs CEO Mark Wade told EE Times at Web Summit Qatar. “We’re excited to tap into the region and start to partner here and figure out what that means for us.” Th
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