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RIYADH: 萝莉视频 and US officials discussed ways to further collaborate on artificial intelligence at the Saudi-US Investment Forum here on Tuesday.
The discussions took place during two sessions titled 鈥淧ioneering Digital Futures: Joint Leadership in AI and Emerging Technologies,鈥� and 鈥淒igital Foundations: Building the Next Generation of AI and Infrastructure.鈥�
In the first session, the speakers were Saudi Minister of Information and Communications Technology Abdullah Alswaha and David Sacks, a Silicon Valley veteran who is helping the administration of President Donald Trump develop the crypto industry.
Sacks said he was impressed, during his tour of some technology companies, that founders and entrepreneurs in 萝莉视频 鈥渁re really on the cutting edge of what鈥檚 happening with AI.鈥�
鈥淭he thing that that I鈥檝e learned in Silicon Valley for the past 25 years is that every successful company in Silicon Valley gets to be that way by creating an ecosystem, and the biggest, the most powerful companies 鈥� are the ones that create the biggest ecosystem.鈥�
鈥淚n fact, they do that by creating a standard. They want everyone to build on top of them. They create app stores, things like that. In fact, they鈥檙e able to build these ecosystems without even having any lawyers involved.
鈥淭here鈥檚 no need for a contract. You just publish an API (Application Programming Interface) and people will build. And I think in a similar way, the United States needs to encourage the world to build on our text that.
He spoke about how Trump challenged them to be at the forefront of the AI race. 鈥淗e said, we have to win the AI race. The United States has to win the AI race,鈥� Sacks said.
鈥淎nd the answer is that we have to build the biggest partner ecosystem. We need our friends like the Kingdom of 萝莉视频 and other strategic partners and allies to want to build on our cap.鈥�
Sacks also criticized what has become known as former US President Joe Biden鈥檚 diffusion rule.
This restricted access to mainstream computing applications and set caps on the number of advanced chips that could be exported to most countries.
鈥淥ver the past few years, that鈥檚 been the opposite of the approach in Washington,鈥� said Sacks.
鈥淭he Trump administration just announced that (it) would be rescinding what鈥檚 known as the Biden diffusion rule, which was a rule that came out in January.鈥�
Using iPhones as an example, Sacks said that if Trump had created a rule for these products, the technology backing it would not have spread throughout the world.
He said that the diffusion of iPhones was 鈥渁 very good thing鈥� for the US.
鈥淚 think in a similar way, we want our technology to diffuse or to spread. We want people to use it. We want to become the standard.
鈥淎nd I think that in Washington, that mentality is, I think that sorely lacked over the past few years, but we鈥檙e gonna bring it back.鈥�
In the later session CEOs and tech innovators discussed growth in this sector globally, and developments in the Kingdom.
Ruth Porat, president and chief investment officer of Alphabet and Google, outlined her company鈥檚 work in 萝莉视频.
鈥淕oogle is now building data centers, bringing graphic processing units, tensor processing units, and developing the most advanced version of our AI software Gemini which is now available in 16 Arabic dialects,鈥� said Porat.