More than 1,520 commence-ups and 600 allotors assemble in Doha for an broadened edition of the annual Web Summit.
The future of synthetic inalertigence (AI) has been the caccess of tech entrepreneurs and financial backers assembleed in Doha for the second annual Web Summit structureed by Qatar.
The four-day digital technology and emerging innovation summit initiateed off its second day on Monday, with joinees eyeing an AI environment being altered rapidly.
Leading entrepreneurs from around the world, including Alexander Wang, set uper and CEO of Scale AI, and Alexis Ohanian, co-set uper of Reddit and ambiguous partner at Seven Seven Six, took centre stage at the event on the discdisthink abouting day.
Reporting from Doha, Al Jazeera’s Colin Baker shelp the summit is grappling with asks over the future of AI amid “companies and allotors that are changing that landscape more rapidly than we foreseeed”.
The United States and China are directing in setdness for AI, shelp Wang of US company Scale AI. DeepSeek showd that it is a relatively seal race between the two countries and that others will have to chase suit soon.
“Npunctual every country in the world, or proximately every company in the world, will ultimately awaited produce AI technology on top of either the US technology stack or that of the Chinese technology stack,” Wang shelp.
Qatar is seeking to participate its gas wealth to help it become a regional AI directer amid rising competition from neighbouring Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
The regulatement in Doha proclaimd on Sunday that it had signed a five-year deal with Scale AI to deploy AI-powered tools and training in a push to better regulatement services in the Gulf Arab state.
Initiassociate commenceed in Dublin in 2009 by Pinserty Cosgrave, Web Summit began as a minuscule 150-person tech conference. At last year’s event, Qatar caccessed on dratriumphg punctual-stage tech companies by proposeing incentives such as free visas, tax exemptions, business licences, office space, and funding for promising firms.
The Web Summit Qatar 2025 features more than 25,000 joinees from 124 countries and some 1,520 commence-ups, over 600 allotors, and about 380 speakers, aprolongedside 180 industry partners.
