“UAE AI strategy 2031 is marking a new level of innovation and the government is significantly investing in the latest AI technologies and tools to enhance performance, efficiency and fuel growth. Microsoft strongly believes that AI technologies will have significant impact on what good leadership will mean for future generations, and that sparking conversation now about smart solutions will allow current private and public organisations to take proper stock of the implications of various technologies,” said Sayed Hashish, Regional General Manager, Microsoft Gulf.
Respondents’ organisations were divided in two categories: high-growth companies, with double-digit growth and lower-growth companies, with single-digit growth. Each company’s AI maturity was then defined as either: waiting, exploring, experimenting, formalising or integrating. It was found that 38% of high-growth companies worldwide are either at the “formalising” or “integrating” maturity levels, but only 17% of lower-growth companies were at those levels.
