Mohammed bin Rashid honours winners of UAE AI Award during UAE Government Annual Meeting

His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, successful the beingness of His Highness Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Vice President, Deputy Prime Minister and Chairman of the Presidential Court, honoured winners of the UAE AI Award successful a ceremonial held successful Abu Dhabi during the UAE Government Annual Meeting 2024.

Sheikh Mohammed said, “Artificial Intelligence volition radically alteration concern and the transportation of nationalist services, and we are determined to beryllium astatine the forefront among countries adopting AI tools to accelerate authorities work.”

The grant ceremonial was besides attended by H.H. Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defence; H.H. Sheikh Maktoum bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, First Deputy Ruler of Dubai, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance; H.H. Sheikh Ahmed bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Second Deputy Ruler of Dubai and Chairman of the Dubai Media Council; H.H. Sheikh Sultan bin Ahmed bin Sultan Al Qasimi, Deputy Ruler of Sharjah; H.H. Sheikh Ammar bin Humaid Al Nuaimi, Crown Prince of Ajman; H.H. Sheikh Rashid bin Saud bin Rashid Al Mua’lla, Crown Prince of Umm Al Quwain; H.H. Sheikh Mohammed bin Hamad bin Mohammed Al Sharqi, Crown Prince of Fujairah; H.H. Sheikh Mohammed bin Saud bin Saqr Al Qasimi, Crown Prince of Ras Al Khaimah; and H.H. Sheikha Latifa bint Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Chairperson of the Dubai Culture and Arts Authority (Dubai Culture), alongside ministers and officials.

Launched past March by the UAE Council for Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain, the UAE AI Award seeks to animate federal, local, and semi-government entities to clasp precocious AI applications. It aims to found a nationalist benchmark for AI utilisation and foster groundbreaking solutions that envision a aboriginal driven by integer innovation, collaboration, and enhanced originative competitiveness.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs won the Service Excellence class grant for its groundbreaking Smart Mission task – AI-driven consulate services that necessitate nary quality intervention. The Smart Mission project, a archetypal of its kind, was launched astatine the UAE Embassy successful South Korea, with 5 further missions acceptable to unfastened implicit the adjacent six months.

DP World received an grant successful the Operational Efficiency class for its ‘Tanbeeh’ level – an advanced, AI-powered solution developed by Emirati endowment that provides 4 halfway capabilities to boost readiness successful the look of assorted challenges faced by swift effect teams. Key features include: detection of fires wrong 5 seconds by processing implicit 500 hours of surveillance footage from cameras crossed Jebel Ali, proactively monitoring compliance with idiosyncratic information protocols, enabling seamless tract entree with up to 99 percent accuracy done facial designation technology, and analysing postulation patterns to foretell and debar congestion with up to 90 percent accuracy.

The Integrated Transport Centre (Abu Dhabi Mobility) received the grant successful the Decision-Making class for its STEAM+ integrated modelling and investigation strategy – a important advancement for Abu Dhabi Mobility. This ecosystem serves arsenic a cardinal instrumentality for informed decision-making and enhancing proscription investments wrong the emirate.

Harnessing large information and AI, STEAM+ processes implicit 70 cardinal information matrices, categorising and merging them to enactment seamless decision-making. The strategy provides insights into existent proscription patterns, identifies colonisation needs, anticipates shifts successful demand, and forecasts aboriginal developments successful mobility crossed Abu Dhabi.

Abu Dhabi’s Advanced Technology Research Council secured the Emirati AI Solutions grant for its Falcon connection model, a groundbreaking accomplishment that has propelled projects similar RAZI and LAW71.

Developed by the Technology Innovation Institute, Falcon is simply a ample generative connection exemplary (LLM) designed to enactment scalable and high-performance exertion development. Trained connected an extended web dataset enriched with curated sources, the Falcon LLM bid stands arsenic the Arab world’s archetypal connection exemplary to rival offerings from large tech players specified arsenic Meta, Google, and OpenAI.

The UAE AI Award attracted implicit 225 entries from 76 authorities and semi-government entities and 44 backstage organisations, with 12 projects advancing to the finals – a testament to the award's relation successful shaping the integer aboriginal and strengthening the UAE's competitory edge.

Nominations underwent rigorous valuation by a sheet of experts and specialists, with criteria focused connected innovation, AI ethics, AI maturity standards, scalability and maturation potential, and wide impact.

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