Over 1,520 startups and 600 investors will gather in Doha for an expanded edition of the annual Web Summit.
The future of artificial intelligence (AI) was the focus of high-tech entrepreneurs and financial aids who gathered in Doha for the second annual web summit hosted by Qatar.
The four-day digital technology and emerging innovation summit begins its second day on Monday, with participants experiencing a rapid change in the AI environment.
Leading entrepreneurs around the world, including Scale AI founder and CEO Alexander Wang and general partner Alexis Ohanian, co-founder and general partner of Seven Seven Six Reddit, have won center stage at the opening day event I did.
Report from Doha, Al Jazeera’s Colin Baker said in a report that “companies and investors who are changing their landscapes more quickly than we expected” summits are addressing questions about the future of AI. I stated.
The US and China are leading AI preparations, said the U.S. company-wide AI King. Deepseek demonstrated that it is a relatively close race between the two countries and that other countries must follow suit immediately.
“Nearly every country in the world, or almost every company in the world, could ultimately build AI technology in addition to either the US technology stack or the Chinese technology stack,” Wang said. says.
Qatar is trying to use gas wealth to become the region’s AI leader amid growing competition between neighboring Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Doha’s government announced on Sunday that it had signed a five-year contract with Scale AI to deploy AI-powered tools and training to improve government services in the Gulf Arab state.
The web summit, launched in Dublin in 2009 by Paddy Cosgrave, began as a small technical conference of 150 people. At last year’s event, Qatar focused on attracting early-stage tech companies by providing incentives such as free visas, tax exemptions, business licenses, office space and funding for promising companies.
Web Summit Qatar 2025 has over 25,000 participants from 124 countries, with around 1,520 startups, over 600 investors and around 380 speakers alongside 180 industry partners .
