#UAE #corporate - Abu Dhabi sovereign investor Mubadala Investment Company and San Francisco-headquartered AI compute platform Together AI have announced a strategic partnership. Together AI will establish a local presence in Abu Dhabi and the two companies will explore AI infrastructure and ecosystem opportunities in the UAE. The announcement follows Mubadala’s recent $100 million investment in Together AI’s $800 million Series C round. Together AI provides inference, model shaping and accelerated compute for developers, building on open-source AI models and powering more than a million developers worldwide.
SO WHAT? - Open-source AI often depends on sovereign compute being available where developers actually operate. Together AI setting up in Abu Dhabi will bring its inference and research capabilities closer to regional developers. For Mubadala, it’s another instance of turning a financial stake into a physical presence, the same playbook used with other portfolio companies, helping to build local technical depth for Abu Dhabi’s AI ecoystem.
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Mubadala Investment Company and Together AI have announced a strategic partnership to explore AI infrastructure and ecosystem opportunities in the UAE, with Together AI establishing a local presence in Abu Dhabi.
The partnership follows Mubadala’s $100 million participation in Together AI’s Series C financing round, announced 1 July 2026, alongside other global technology and financial investors.
Founded in 2022, Together AI is headquartered in San Francisco and provides a full-stack AI platform for inference, model shaping and accelerated compute. Its service helps developers and enterprises operate applications using open and custom AI models.
The company now claims to support more than a million developers globally and some of the world’s most demanding AI workloads, including production-scale inference, training and reinforcement learning.
The partnership supports Abu Dhabi’s ambition to build sovereign capabilities across the AI value chain and strengthen its position as an international hub for applied innovation.
Mubadala manages a $385 billion (AED 1,414 billion) global investment portfolio spanning six continents, with a mandate to support the diversification and global integration of the UAE economy.
ZOOM OUT - 2026 has proved to be a pivotal year for Together AI in the Middle East. In September, the company announced a partnership with Saudi national AI champion HUMAIN to build a 250-megawatt data centre. The project targets more than $5 billion in gross annualised revenue in its first year by pairing HUMAIN's hardware footprint with Together AI's open-source developer base. That deal followed Together AI's $800 million Series C round (announced in July 2026), led by Aramco Ventures and valuing the company at $8.3 billion. With funding from Aramco, HUMAIN and Mubadala, Together AI has three of the Gulf's largest capital funds invested inits open-source AI cloud platform.
[Written and edited with the assistance of AI]
Source: Together AI, Mubadala, HUMAIN, various
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