Scale AI establishes a UAE entity with evaluation and local capability at the centre

The DIFC launch follows a Presight memorandum and sets out plans for Arabic reliability, institutional oversight and skills.

Scale AI formally launched its UAE entity on October 26 at the Dubai AI Festival, locating the operation at the Dubai International Financial Centre. The company links the move to its memorandum of understanding with Presight earlier in the month and to a longer-term presence alongside UAE institutions.

Scale's announcement emphasises three areas: evaluating what an AI system must reliably do, building governance and human review into its operation, and training local teams to maintain and improve it. The company specifically mentions systems that work reliably in Arabic and meet local governance requirements.

Establishing an entity creates a commercial and organisational footing. The more demanding work comes when a system enters a public-service or enterprise process with defined responsibilities. Language coverage, for example, includes understanding the terminology and ambiguity of the actual service, as well as producing fluent sentences.

Evaluation can make those requirements concrete. A deployment team can identify tasks that the system should complete, cases it must refer to a person and errors that would make the service unsuitable for release. Continuing to measure those outcomes after launch helps determine whether a change in model or workflow affects service quality.

Scale points to its existing Qatar work, where it says it has trained or upskilled nearly 6,000 people and built applications now used by the public. Its UAE announcement similarly connects deployment to local operating capability. The Presight memorandum establishes a direction for cooperation; it does not establish that the proposed joint projects have already delivered those results.

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- [Scale is Open for Business in the UAE](https://scale.com/blog/scale-in-uae) — Scale AI