Microsoft to ship 60,000 Nvidia AI chips to UAE under US-approved deal

Microsoft has announced it volition vessel Nvidia's precocious AI chips to the United Arab Emirates

WASHINGTON -- Microsoft said Monday it volition beryllium shipping Nvidia's astir precocious artificial quality chips to the United Arab Emirates arsenic portion of a woody approved by the U.S. Commerce Department.

The Redmond, Washington bundle elephantine said licenses approved successful September nether “stringent” safeguards alteration it to vessel much than 60,000 Nvidia chips, including the California chipmaker's precocious GB300 Grace Blackwell chips, for usage successful information centers successful the Middle Eastern country.

The statement appeared to contradict President Donald Trump's remarks successful a “60 Minutes” interrogation aired Sunday that specified chips would not beryllium exported extracurricular the U.S.

Asked by CBS News’ Norah O’Donnell if helium volition let Nvidia to merchantability its astir precocious chips to China, Trump said helium wouldn’t.

“We volition fto them woody with Nvidia but not successful presumption of the astir advanced,” Trump said. “The astir advanced, we volition not fto anybody person them different than the United States.”

The UAE’s quality to entree chips is tied to its pledge to put $1.4 trillion successful U.S. vigor and AI-related projects, an outsized sum fixed its yearly GDP is astir $540 billion.

The UAE ambassador to the U.S., Yousef Al Otaiba, said successful a connection earlier this twelvemonth that the statement was “setting a caller ‘Gold Standard’ for securing AI models, chips, information and access.”

Microsoft's announcement Monday was portion of the company's planned $15.2 cardinal concern successful exertion successful the UAE, which is says has immoderate of the highest per-capita usage of AI. Microsoft had already accumulated successful the UAE much than 21,000 of Nvidia's graphics processor chips, known arsenic GPUs, done licenses approved nether then-President Joe Biden.

“We’re utilizing these GPUs to supply entree to precocious AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic, open-source providers, and Microsoft itself,” said a institution statement.

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