Silicon Valley’s reign is over – Dubai will dominate the AI industry

Silicon Valley’s reign is over – Dubai will dominate the AI industry

The US has been leading the tech race for decades. Most of the biggest tech companies of all time call the US their home and Silicon Valley is regarded as the international epicentre of tech innovation. But the tide may finally be turning.

I believe that the UAE is in the perfect position to challenge America’s era of dominance. This is especially true in the area of artificial intelligence – which is set to be the most consequential since the advent of the internet.

Perhaps the company most synonymous with America’s tech success is Google.

Google convincingly beat the search engine competition both in the US and across the globe, to become the most widely used search engine by a long way. It continues to be a flagship for the US economy, with its parent company Alphabet joining the $1 trillion club in 2020, of which there are only five members (four of which are based in the US).

There have since been glimmers of hope for competitors, whether that be China’s Baidu, Russia’s Yandex, or South Korea’s Naver, but their usage has remained largely local.

So how did the US create an environment which allowed for such a powerhouse to develop?

Ultimately, it was a