Open Innovation AI has partnered with Dhow Engineering to accelerate the adoption of sovereign artificial intelligence in Kuwait. The collaboration targets government and enterprise sectors, offering a hardware-agnostic platform to manage AI workloads while maintaining national control and data residency.
The partnership is aimed at government entities and enterprises in Kuwait that operate in critical national sectors and need to run AI workloads under national control. Open Innovation AI’s platform is hardware-agnostic and orchestrates AI workloads across on-premises, private-cloud and hybrid environments, with governance and access controls provided at the platform layer. It supports enterprise applications that include private AI assistants, document intelligence, analytics and model hosting. The parties will jointly bring these capabilities to government and enterprise customers in Kuwait.
“Kuwait has the ambition, institutional strength and strategic vision to become a leading market for sovereign AI,” said Dr. Abed Benaichouche, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Open Innovation AI. “Our partnership with Dhow Engineering gives us a highly credible local platform through which we can bring our AI Fabric technology and experience supporting mission-critical AI environments in the region to customers in Kuwait. Together, we intend to accelerate responsible AI adoption while ensuring that data, infrastructure and governance remain under sovereign control.”
Under the partnership, Dhow Engineering will act as Open Innovation AI’s local integration and delivery partner in Kuwait. Dhow Engineering will support customer engagement, deployment coordination, integration with local data centers, telecommunications providers and enterprise environments, as well as locally delivered implementation and support services. Open Innovation AI will provide its sovereign AI Fabric platform, technology, and technical expertise. The parties will work jointly to design each deployment in accordance with the customer’s technical requirements and applicable data-residency, cybersecurity, and regulatory requirements in Kuwait.
“This partnership with Open Innovation AI represents an important step in expanding the AI capabilities available to organizations in Kuwait,” said Joe Chidiac, Group Chief Executive Officer, Dhow International Holding. “By combining Open Innovation AI’s sovereign AI technology with Dhow Engineering’s local market knowledge, infrastructure capabilities, and delivery experience, we aim to create secure, scalable and commercially relevant solutions that address Kuwait’s priorities and generate long-term value for our customers and the country.”
The two companies intend to begin by identifying priority sectors and use cases in Kuwait, and to develop joint proposals for customer opportunities as those are defined.
