Abu Dhabi launches world's first University of Artificial Intelligence

Abu Dhabi is gearing up for the next phase in advances in science and technology by announcing plans to open the world's first University of Artificial Intelligence. Academic experts and businesspeople from China, America and the UK will help to steer the state-of-the-art institute when the campus officially opens to graduate students in Masdar City in September 2020. Abu Dhabi made the announcement as part of a national strategy set up in 2017 that makes Artificial Intelligence the centrepiece of the UAE's focus on developing a "knowledge-based economy". The university has partnered with the Abu Dhabi-based Inception Institute of Artificial Intelligence, who will advise on the academic curriculum. The university has also been named after the capital's political leader, crown prince sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan.