Emirates NBD first in MENA to adopt OpenAI sovereign AI for UAE customers

Emirates NBD and OpenAI announced a new enterprise collaboration that will make Emirates NBD the first bank in the MENA region to deploy OpenAI’s GPT models using in-country in-ference infrastructure in the UAE. Banks operate in one of the world’s most highly regulated industries, where security, governance and com-pliance are non-negotiable. Access to in-country inference allows financial institutions to adopt frontier AI at enterprise scale while supporting local regulatory expectations around