AI Everything 2026: Abu Dhabi hosts one of the world's largest AI summits
The global AI gathering returns to the UAE capital, drawing model-makers, chipmakers, governments and startups.
Headway / UnsplashAbu Dhabi hosted AI Everything 2026, one of the largest artificial-intelligence events in the world, bringing together model developers, hardware vendors, sovereign-AI programmes, investors and startups under one roof.
Why the UAE
The summit's scale tracks the country's broader AI build-out — from the Stargate compute cluster to sovereign models like Falcon and K2 Think and the MBZUAI research base. For founders, events like this are where regional access to chips, capital and government programmes gets negotiated in person.