UAE Inference Residency helps enterprises, public-sector institutions and education providers adopt AI while aligning with local compliance, governance and operational needs. This launch establishes the UAE as one of the only three locations worldwide – alongside the United States and Europe – where OpenAI supports inference residency, ensuring model inference runs on GPUs inside the country rather than simply storing data locally. With the launch of UAE Inference Residency, we are giving eligible customers greater control over where AI workloads are executed, building on our existing residency offerings and supporting institutions that need stronger regional assurances as they scale AI adoption.