Ashish Koshy

CEO, @Inception_42. Personal page — views are my own.

[Inception42 @Inception_42]

Inception42, OpenAI and Mubadala are bringing frontier AI into investment workflows.

The partnership will help investment teams connect information across their work, track developments and bring emerging insights into focus.

It brings together OpenAI’s frontier models and Inception42’s domain expertise and AI delivery experience to support more informed investment decisions.

Swipe through to discover what the partnership includes and why it matters.

[Inception42 @Inception_42]

A flag that brings us together, a legacy that fills us with pride, and a future we continue to build as one.

Happy UAE Flag Day. 🇦🇪

علمٌ يجمعنا، وإرثٌ يملؤنا فخراً واعتزازاً، ومستقبلٌ نواصل بنيانه بروحٍ واحدة.

دام عزكِ يا إماراتنا، وكل عام ودولة الإمارات بألف خير ورفعة بمناسبة يوم العلم 🇦🇪

[Inception42 @Inception_42]

Powering the future of energy with frontier AI.

Inception42, joins forces with OpenAI and ADNOC in a landmark agreement that positions ADNOC as the first company in the energy sector to deploy OpenAI’s frontier technology.

Bringing together Inception42’s applied AI expertise, OpenAI’s advanced GPT models and ADNOC’s industry leadership, this collaboration aims to redefine how AI is integrated across the energy value chain.

From operational efficiency to investment and commercial strategy, the partnership will enable more connected, AI-powered decision-making, unlocking new levels of productivity and performance across ADNOC’s operations.

Powered by OpenAI’s models and supported by in-country inference infrastructure in the UAE, this collaboration represents a significant step towards ADNOC’s ambition to become the world’s most technology- and AI-enabled energy company.

For Inception42, this milestone reinforces our commitment to turning frontier AI into real-world impact, advancing the UAE’s AI-native ambitions and accelerating transformation across industries that power the nation’s future.

[Inception42 @Inception_42]

Inception42 and OpenAI are bringing frontier AI closer to the organizations shaping the UAE’s future.

Our five-year strategic partnership is built around a shared goal: helping government, businesses and educational institutions put AI into practice.

From developing enterprise AI solutions to deploying ChatGPT Enterprise and ChatGPT Education, the partnership will bring technology, training and hands-on delivery together to support adoption at scale.

Inception42’s applied AI expertise and delivery experience, combined with OpenAI’s frontier models and engineering expertise, will help organizations turn access to advanced AI into meaningful use.

Swipe through to learn more about what the partnership includes and why it matters.

[Inception42 @Inception_42]

Inception42 and OpenAI: Frontier AI enabling an AI-native UAE.

Our five-year strategic partnership with OpenAI will bring frontier AI closer to the organizations shaping how the UAE works, serves and learns.

As OpenAI CEO Sam Altman highlights, Abu Dhabi and the UAE are setting a global standard for AI integration across the public and private sectors, with a shared commitment to making its benefits accessible to everyone through safe and responsible innovation.

Echoing this vision, our CEO Ashish Koshy sees the partnership as a transformative moment for the UAE, accelerating the shift from AI adoption to an AI-native nation, where intelligence is embedded in government services, business operations and education.

By combining Inception42’s applied AI expertise and delivery with OpenAI’s frontier technology, we aim to turn this shared ambition into meaningful impact across the nation.

[Inception42 @Inception_42]

A landmark moment for Inception42 as we take another step towards enabling the UAE’s AI-native future.

In the presence of His Highness Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, G42 Group CEO Peng Xiao and Inception42 CEO Ashish Koshy met with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to formalize three strategic agreements that will help unlock new opportunities for AI-driven transformation across the nation.

At the heart of this is a five-year strategic partnership between Inception42 and OpenAI, bringing together our deep understanding of the UAE’s evolving needs and applied AI expertise with OpenAI’s frontier technology.

Through this partnership, Inception42 will help organizations across government, enterprise and education harness the potential of OpenAI’s frontier technology.

Our commitment to enabling AI adoption extends across other critical sectors. Together with ADNOC, G42 and OpenAI, we aim to bring advanced AI into energy operations and decision-making. In parallel, our collaboration with Mubadala and OpenAI will explore new possibilities for AI-powered investment analysis and risk assessment.

These agreements represent more than a commitment to technological advancement. They reflect Inception42’s ambition to make frontier AI accessible, actionable and impactful across the UAE, helping shape a future where AI innovation translates into progress at scale.

Read more: https://t.co/j8bzfSusiz

[Inception42 @Inception_42]

Meet Khaled Almarri, Senior AI Specialist at Inception42.

His focus? Helping people understand, build with and use AI effectively through training and enablement, while simplifying complex ideas and turning them into practical applications.

Khaled shares what excites him about the potential of AI agents, why human judgement remains essential, and why the real opportunity is not just learning how to use AI, but understanding how to think with it and where it can create real value.

[Ashish Koshy @ashishipe]

This lands. AI can chase the weird papers humans won't bet a career on. Same pattern at work: agents explore, people decide what ships. The unlock is knowing which questions stay yours.

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

Academics have to invest tremendous effort into a single paper, so we often work on papers that we suspect will yield interesting & significant results. But that also pushes us to predictable work.

AI has no such constraints, forcing us to rethink a lot of how science is done.

[Ashish Koshy @ashishipe]

1,000× more tokens because agents will live inside the work, not beside it. That only works when someone owns the outcome and the guardrails travel with the agent. Otherwise you're just burning compute on autopilot.

[Aaron Levie @levie]

Agents are going to consume 1,000X more tokens than we consume today.

Because they’re going to be running in our workflows, processing all of our data, building out nearly all software, securing enterprises, and much more. To do this at scale we will need a variety of approaches at the frontier of AI.

This includes continuing to push the boundaries of closed models, while also increasing the capability of open weights models, making them more secure, as well as making them more efficient for large workloads.

Very exciting to see what @Suhail is building with Particle on this front.

[Ashish Koshy @ashishipe]

The team is off to ADIPEC next week. Energy is a great place to test agents for real: tons of data, lots of handoffs, and zero patience for demos. Come find us in the AI Zone, 2–5 Nov.

[Inception42 @Inception_42]

Inception42 is heading to ADIPEC 2026.

Discover our portfolio of AI-native agentic products and solutions, turning complex data into intelligence and intelligence into action.

Join us at the AI Zone at ADIPEC from 2–5 November to explore how our intelligence fabric can help energy leaders strengthen operations, act decisively, and deliver meaningful impact across the sector.

📍 ADNEC Centre, Abu Dhabi, UAE

[Ashish Koshy @ashishipe]

Apollo says AI paid off for 7 companies and stayed flat for the other 493. I don't read that as AI failing. I read it as most firms bolting AI on the side instead of putting it inside how work actually runs, with someone owning the result. That gap is the opportunity.

[Ashish Koshy @ashishipe]

Athens was a good week. Exploring agentic AI with Greece's Ministry of Digital Governance for government and education is the work I enjoy most: real public services, real people, governance built in from day one. Thank you to the team on the ground. Now we build.

[Inception42 @Inception_42]

A new journey for Inception42 in Greece!

This week in Athens, we signed an MoU with Greece’s Ministry of Digital Governance to explore how agentic AI can support government and education. Inception42 was part of the official UAE delegation at the UAE–Greece Business Forum, where five G42 companies signed MoUs with Greek partners.

The focus of the MoU is on the impact that AI can bring about: AI tools to support cabinet meetings and track government priorities, training to help officials work alongside AI agents, and AI tutors and learning platforms to support teaching and learning.

This is an important step and an opportunity to contribute real value for institutions to put AI to work in their everyday operations. All initiatives taken forward will be developed in line with European standards for responsible AI.

[Ashish Koshy @ashishipe]

Emirates NBD running frontier models inside the UAE is the sovereign AI story in one line: top models, data stays home. Good week to be building agents here. This week's AI Pulse from the team 👇

[Inception42 @Inception_42]

AI Pulse | Emirates NBD becomes the first MENA bank to run frontier models inside the UAE, etisalat claims a regional telecom first, Dubai Chambers signs new agentic adoption pacts, six in ten UAE smartphone users expect to hand daily tasks to AI agents, and Microsoft tells enterprises to treat agents as insider risks.

Emirates NBD has announced that the bank will become the first in MENA to run OpenAI’s GPT models on in-country inference infrastructure in the UAE, deploying them across customer engagement, risk and compliance analytics, workflow automation and employee productivity, with data residency and regulatory alignment built into the arrangement: https://t.co/0cPLtV7RwP

etisalat became the first telecom operator in MENA to to achieve international certification for AI management: https://t.co/7MuqqpDvTX

Dubai Chamber of Digital Economy signed two MoUs to accelerate agentic AI adoption across the private sector, extending the transformation programme that has already drawn pledges from the emirate’s largest companies: https://t.co/pbQcSgf6p3

New research reported by Khaleej Times finds more than six in ten UAE smartphone users plan to delegate daily tasks to AI agents by 2030: https://t.co/5Cm6Rq2HPF

Microsoft says that AI agents should be treated like insider threats, arguing frontier models cannot simply be trusted and must operate inside verification, permissions and monitoring: https://t.co/1zQ61VDJJC

NVIDIA launched new open models for running agents in the enterprise and on PCs, extending its open sourced agentic stack: https://t.co/L7smIcHc75

Amazon said its AI chips will work with a popular AI coding language, sharpening its challenge in the accelerator market: https://t.co/ERwuQMquEF

A bank running frontier models on national soil, a representative body formalising adoption, consumers planning their delegation, and the industry’s biggest vendors codifying zero trust for agents. The agentic economy’s trust architecture is being assembled in public, and continues to grow.

AI-native. Human-led.

[Ashish Koshy @ashishipe]

Models that learn how the world actually works, not just how we write about it. Big swing, and a fun one to watch from Abu Dhabi. The next hard part is one we live with daily: getting that intelligence into real workflows, safely. Go G42 + AMI Labs 👏

[G42 @G42ai]

What if AI could experience the world, not just describe it?

That's the frontier we're exploring with Yann LeCun's @ylecun Advanced Machine Intelligence @amilabs

G42 and our portfolio company @Analogio_ have signed MoUs with AMI Labs to explore the next generation of AI through world models - systems designed to understand physical environments, anticipate outcomes, and support reasoning and planning.

Signed on the sidelines of UAE-France Business Dualogue in Abu Dhabi, the agreements mark another step in the growing AI collaboration between the UAE and France.

Because the next frontier of AI isn't just about generating intelligence. It's about understanding the world we live in.

Read more: https://t.co/yFQ5KQhJ7N

#G42ai #ExponentialAI #PhysicalAI #WorldModels #AI

[Inception42 @Inception_42]

AI agents are reshaping how enterprises operate, automate, and scale decision-making across workflows.

Catalyst is built to help organizations create, deploy, and manage AI agents securely across enterprise environments, enabling businesses to move toward AI-native operations.

[Ashish Koshy @ashishipe]

The team's off to SuperReturn in Dubai next week. Investors are buried in documents, and the real job is turning all of that into a call you can stand behind. Come find us at the Ritz-Carlton DIFC, 13 to 15 Oct, and bring your messiest workflow.

[Inception42 @Inception_42]

Inception42 is heading to SuperReturn Middle East, bringing enterprise AI and investment intelligence to the conversations shaping the future of capital.

We’ll be showcasing how AI can help institutional investors, sovereign wealth funds and private markets firms turn complex investment information into actionable insights and make more informed decisions.

Visit our stand for a demo and discover how AI can support your investment workflow.

📍 The Ritz-Carlton, DIFC, Dubai
📅 13–15 October 2026

[Ashish Koshy @ashishipe]

Best line in Satya's piece: the most trustworthy system is the one that lets you trust the model the least. Identity, limited access, logs, an off switch. Boring stuff, and exactly what decides whether agents get real work. It's how we build at Inception42.

[Satya Nadella @satyanadella]

https://t.co/MjwFy73LOF

[Ashish Koshy @ashishipe]

Glad this one's moving. Getting agents into urban planning — with humans still making the calls — is exactly the kind of real-world work we should be doing. Proud of the team partnering with Abu Dhabi's planners on this.

[Inception42 @Inception_42]

A step towards smarter urban planning in Abu Dhabi.

The Department of Municipalities and Transport, Urban Planning and Permitting Centre, and Inception42 have signed a strategic collaboration to advance urban planning and development through intelligent solutions.

At the centre of this collaboration is Intelligent Urban Plan Review, an Agentic AI platform designed to transform complex urban planning workflows while keeping human judgement at the heart of decision-making.

[Ashish Koshy @ashishipe]

Glad to make this one official with Solutions+. Catalyst plus a team that knows how UAE enterprises actually run is how agents get out of the pilot stage and into real work. On sovereign rails, of course.

[SolutionsPlusUAE @solutionsplusae]

Solutions+ and Inception42 have signed an MoU to accelerate the deployment of sovereign agentic AI across enterprises in the UAE.

Announced at #AIEverything AbuDhabi 2026, the partnership brings together Inception42’s Catalyst platform with Solutions+’ industry knowledge, client relationships and governance expertise to help organisations move AI from experimentation into production at scale, with stronger security and oversight.

#SolutionsPlusUAE

[Ashish Koshy @ashishipe]

Great to see Elettra representing Inception42 on AI security. Scale without trust doesn't ship — glad this was on the programme.

[G42 @G42ai]

Don’t miss the next session with Elettra Schinina from @Inception_42 on AI security, happening right now at @AiEverythingAD

Hall 4, Booth A20