G42 Unveils Abu Dhabi's Agent Factory to Govern Autonomous AI at Scale

Abu Dhabi's G42, one of the world's leading AI conglomerates, announced plans to build an 'agent factory' at the World Governments Summit in Dubai in February 2026. G42 chief executive Peng Xiao described the initiative as a fundamental shift in how autonomous AI systems are created and managed — moving beyond generating AI outputs to building the infrastructure required to govern how AI agents operate independently across industries.

The scale of G42's ambitions is substantial. The company is developing a national computing infrastructure capable of producing up to 100 trillion tokens per day, supported by the Stargate UAE project — a one-gigawatt facility built in partnership with Microsoft and NVIDIA using the latest Grace Blackwell GB300 systems. This computing foundation is designed to give both UAE government entities and regional startups access to the hardware necessary to run autonomous AI agents at enterprise scale.

The agent factory concept reflects a broader maturation of the enterprise AI market. The industry's focus has shifted decisively from building smarter models to building better orchestration systems — infrastructure that can create, deploy, monitor, and manage AI agents across complex organizational workflows. G42's announcement positions the UAE not merely as a consumer of AI infrastructure but as a builder of the governance frameworks that will define agentic AI deployment globally.

For the UAE and the broader Gulf region, the timing aligns with national priorities. Abu Dhabi's Digital Government Strategy aims to embed AI across all public services by 2027, transforming the emirate into the world's first fully AI-native government. Achieving this goal requires precisely the kind of agent orchestration infrastructure G42 is building — not just models deployed in isolation, but coordinated autonomous agents managing everything from citizen services to critical infrastructure maintenance.

At Diverge, our work is rooted in the same challenge G42 is addressing at the infrastructure level: enabling organizations to deploy and govern AI agents that operate reliably in live environments. MawjazAI, our real-time intelligence agent, aggregates and synthesizes information across hundreds of Arabic and English sources — demonstrating how well-orchestrated AI agents can deliver actionable intelligence at scale, across language barriers, and in compliance-sensitive environments.

G42's agent factory announcement signals that the Gulf region is entering a new phase of AI maturity — one defined not by what AI models can do, but by how reliably and safely they can be deployed at scale. The organizations that invest now in agent orchestration capabilities will be best positioned when the infrastructure G42 is building comes online. In the emerging agentic AI economy, the builders of governance frameworks will be the ones setting the competitive standard.