OpenAI signs four Abu Dhabi deployment agreements

On Nov. 2, 2026 the Abu Dhabi Media Office said Crown Prince Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed witnessed four OpenAI agreements covering ADNOC operations, a machine-readable government pilot, Mubadala investment analysis, and a five-year Inception42 adoption program. ADNOC, G42 unit Inception42 and OpenAI will run GPT models on UAE inference infrastructure, and the government pilot is already checking food imports at the Agriculture and Food Safety Authority while officials keep the decision. No contract value was disclosed, and the agreements do not close the reported private round.