G42 and Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence sign agreement on a supercomputing complex in India: exporting computing infrastructure reshapes regional partnerships

In New Delhi, on the sidelines of the AI Impact Summit India 2026, a bilateral meeting brought together Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Khalid bin Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan. The talks reviewed prospects for joint cooperation and explored ways to strengthen work in AI within the framework of the comprehensive strategic partnership between the two countries. The meeting resulted in the final wording of a term sheet between the Indian Advanced Computing Development Center and both G42 and Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, aimed at deploying a supercomputing complex in India, alongside the announcement of an Abu Dhabi National Insurance office in the International Financial Technology City of Gujarat, translating institutional closeness into concrete implementation projects in the infrastructure and finance sectors.

The step came as part of a series of bilateral talks that Modi held with international leaders during the same summit, including a meeting with Dutch Prime Minister Dick Sjoef to discuss using AI as a driver of economic and social transformation and to boost technological innovation following negotiations on the free trade agreement between India and the European Union, and a meeting with Swiss President Guy Parmelin that focused on AI innovation partnerships and the implementation of the trade and economic partnership agreement to create jobs for youth, as well as talks with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis that addressed cooperation in emerging technologies, defence and trade, reflecting a growing trend toward cross-border alliances based on sharing computing capacity and developing AI tools and advanced systems.

Shifting from merely consuming computing power to jointly exporting it and deploying its infrastructure represents a fundamental change in the management of technical resources.The partnership’s importance lies in linking Emirati academic and technical arms with national computing institutions in major markets such as India, where the deployment of supercomputing complexes creates shared operating environments capable of handling complex deep-learning models and massive data processing, rather than relying solely on purchasing ready-made compute capacity from traditional cloud service providers, thereby enhancing infrastructure independence and supporting the development of joint applications through advanced research centres.

The development has direct implications for technical decision-makers, engineering teams and research institutions across the Gulf and the Middle East, as it requires infrastructure managers and system developers to recalculate training and inference costs in light of emerging government-backed and bilateral computing partnerships that cross geographic borders. If you lead a model-development team or plan to build local processing capacity, this collaborative model shows that access to supercomputing is no longer limited to isolated local data centres, but is moving toward distributed operational networks supported by strategic agreements that provide secure, sustainable access to high-intensity processing capabilities.