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Title: CEO Company: G42 Industry: Technology

Peng serves as Group CEO of G42, the Abu Dhabi-based technology holding company that has become a geopolitical pivot point in the global AI sector. He manages a vast portfolio that spans healthcare, energy and government services, driving the UAE’ s ambition to become a premier AI superpower. Peng orchestrated the company’ s landmark US $ 1.5bn partnership with Microsoft, which saw G42 decouple from Chinese hardware suppliers to align its infrastructure with US export controls. Under his leadership, the group launched Jais, the world’ s highest-quality Arabic LLM, ensuring regional languages are not left behind in the generative boom. Peng focuses on sovereign AI, helping nations build their own computational capacity and data independence. He is actively deploying massive supercomputing clusters in the desert, positioning G42 as a neutral but essential infrastructure provider for the Global South.

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