His Highness Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed has been at the centre of several UAE initiatives on artificial intelligence and cloud computing.
“G42, the UAE’s leading tech company, has already built a global portfolio of AI supercomputers via partnerships with organisations like Microsoft and Cerebras Systems,” TIME said in its citation.
TIME recalled His Highness Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed’s role in various recent initiatives: “In March, after His Highness Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed met with US President Donald Trump, the White House unveiled that the UAE would make a $1.4 trillion investment in American AI infrastructure and related tech over the next decade—and in May the Trump Administration announced the president would lift key trade restrictions to the Middle East,” TIME’s citation said.
His Highness Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed’s initiatives set the stage for a 5 GW data centre campus in Abu Dhabi, expected to become the world’s largest AI infrastructure project outside the US, TIME said.
TIME on Thursday revealed the third annual TIME100 AI list, recognising the 100 most influential people in artificial intelligence.
The list contains the who’s who of the world of technology. The 100 list has been divided into four categories — Leaders, Innovators, Shapers and Thinkers. His Highness Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed was listed in the Shapers category.
The 2025 list featured distinguished global names in AI including Matthew Prince, Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Jensen Huang and Fidji Simo, as well as innovators such as Natasha Lyonne, Refik Anadol, Alex Blania, Mike Krieger and Mati Staniszewski. Among the shapers alongside Sheikh Tahnoon were Stuart Russell, Fei-Fei Li, David Sacks, Henna Virkkunen and Bosun Tijani, while the thinkers category included Yoshua Bengio, Jeffrey Dean, Jared Kaplan, Regina Barzilay and Pope Leo XIV.
To assemble the list, TIME’s editors and reporters spent months researching candidates, including soliciting recommendations from industry leaders and dozens of expert sources.
“G42, the UAE’s leading tech company, has already built a global portfolio of AI supercomputers via partnerships with organisations like Microsoft and Cerebras Systems,” TIME said in its citation.
TIME recalled His Highness Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed’s role in various recent initiatives: “In March, after His Highness Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed met with US President Donald Trump, the White House unveiled that the UAE would make a $1.4 trillion investment in American AI infrastructure and related tech over the next decade—and in May the Trump Administration announced the president would lift key trade restrictions to the Middle East,” TIME’s citation said.
His Highness Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed’s initiatives set the stage for a 5 GW data centre campus in Abu Dhabi, expected to become the world’s largest AI infrastructure project outside the US, TIME said.
TIME on Thursday revealed the third annual TIME100 AI list, recognising the 100 most influential people in artificial intelligence.
The list contains the who’s who of the world of technology. The 100 list has been divided into four categories — Leaders, Innovators, Shapers and Thinkers. His Highness Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed was listed in the Shapers category.
The 2025 list featured distinguished global names in AI including Matthew Prince, Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Jensen Huang and Fidji Simo, as well as innovators such as Natasha Lyonne, Refik Anadol, Alex Blania, Mike Krieger and Mati Staniszewski. Among the shapers alongside Sheikh Tahnoon were Stuart Russell, Fei-Fei Li, David Sacks, Henna Virkkunen and Bosun Tijani, while the thinkers category included Yoshua Bengio, Jeffrey Dean, Jared Kaplan, Regina Barzilay and Pope Leo XIV.
To assemble the list, TIME’s editors and reporters spent months researching candidates, including soliciting recommendations from industry leaders and dozens of expert sources.
