UAE telecom and digital services provider du has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Open Innovation AI to build out the country’s sovereign agentic AI capability — signed at the Digital Readiness Retreat 2026 in Dubai in the presence of the Head of Cyber Security for the UAE Government.
The partnership pairs du Tech’s National Hypercloud with Open Innovation AI’s orchestration fabric, covering GPU resource management, AI workload orchestration, and AI security. The combination is designed to let public and private organizations deploy and scale autonomous agentic AI workloads quickly while staying inside the UAE’s strict regulatory and data-sovereignty requirements.
Under the MoU, the two companies will explore technical integration between the National Hypercloud and Open Innovation AI’s platform, sovereign AI platform development, commercial deployment opportunities, and joint go-to-market initiatives.
Orchestrated in collaboration with the UAE Cyber Security Council, the partnership aims to accelerate adoption of agentic AI workforces across government entities and enterprises — with security and data sovereignty embedded at the infrastructure level, in alignment with the Council’s national framework.
The deal slots into a rapidly assembling national stack: the UAE has spent the past two years aligning telecom infrastructure, GPU capacity, and regulatory frameworks behind locally governed AI. With rival operator e& launching its own sovereign AI platform alongside the Cyber Security Council weeks earlier, the UAE’s two major telcos are now openly competing to host the government’s agentic future.
For enterprises in the Emirates, the message is consistent: agentic AI is coming to regulated industries, and it will run on sovereign infrastructure.
