The collaboration builds on e& UAE’s broader AI strategy and its ongoing work with national partners to support secure digital transformation, cyber resilience and sovereign technology development across the UAE.
The UAE Cyber Security Council (CSC), e& UAE , and Open Innovation AI (OI ) launched the UAE Sovereign AI Platform for national-scale infrastructure, an initiative delivering secure AI capabilities across national security, mission-critical operations, critical infrastructure, and classified government environments. The launch was announced at ISNR 2026 in Abu Dhabi, with the platform available for onboarding as of today.
The platform enables organisations to deploy and operate advanced AI technologies, including generative AI, large language models, AI agents, advanced analytics, and autonomous workflows, within fully UAE-controlled infrastructure designed for the highest levels of security, resilience, and regulatory compliance. At its core, the platform introduces a Sovereign AI Security Framework that validates, governs, and monitors AI models, agents, applications, and workflows before deployment into sensitive environments. The framework is designed to address emerging national security challenges associated with AI adoption.
- model integrity and governance
- operational isolation
- cyber resilience
- data sovereignty
- sovereign AI execution
- secure AI operations
- secure execution of classified AI workloads
The initiative brings together the UAE Cyber Security Council’s national governance and cyber resilience frameworks, e& UAE’s national-scale digital infrastructure and secure connectivity, and Open Innovation AI’s AI orchestration platform and end-to-end technology stack. The complete platform, covering GPU orchestration, AI infrastructure management, model deployment, AI agents, secure inference, and operational controls, was designed, engineered, and built in the UAE.
The platform is designed for sectors requiring air-gapped, cyber-secure AI environments:
- national security and mission-critical operations
- intelligence and cyber operations
- emergency response
- critical infrastructure
- smart government
- regulated strategic industries
“AI adoption in sensitive environments must be supported by strong governance, secure infrastructure and clear national controls. This platform is an important step in enabling government entities and mission-critical organisations to benefit from AI while maintaining the highest levels of cyber resilience, data protection and policy alignment. By working with e& UAE and Open Innovation AI, we are supporting a secure national AI ecosystem that is built around trust, sovereignty and operational readiness.”
– Dr. Mohamed Al Kuwaiti, Head, Cyber Security for the UAE Government
“National security and high-assurance government environments require AI platforms that are secure by design, sovereign by architecture and built for real-world deployment. Through our collaboration with the UAE Cyber Security Council and Open Innovation AI, we are building a platform that keeps sensitive workloads within UAE-controlled infrastructure while enabling advanced AI, analytics and agentic AI capabilities. This reflects e& UAE’s role as a trusted technology partner for government entities and strategic sectors.”
– Abdulla Ebrahim Al Ahmed, Chief Government & VVIP Relations Officer, e& UAE
“Built for organisations that manage sensitive operations and critical national data, the platform is designed to help government entities and mission-critical organisations adopt AI while maintaining control over data, compute, models, applications and security policies. It will also support compliance with UAE cyber security and AI policy requirements through an advanced AI Security Framework. The platform’s technology stack, from GPU orchestration and model deployment to AI applications and intelligent agents, has been developed and built in the UAE. This local development approach is designed to strengthen national capabilities, accelerate secure AI adoption and support the UAE’s position as a global hub for trusted digital infrastructure”
– Dr. Abed Benaichouche, CEO and Co-Founder, Open Innovation AI
The platform is expected to support a range of secure AI use cases, including AI agents, advanced analytics, classified workload processing, decision-support capabilities, knowledge management, workflow automation for sensitive environments, and controlled AI applications for government and mission-critical environments.
The collaboration builds on e& UAE’s broader AI strategy and its ongoing work with national partners to support secure digital transformation, cyber resilience and sovereign technology development across the UAE.