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April 29, 2025
The AI summit "Machines Can See 2025" (MCS) concluded after two days at the Museum of the Future in Dubai. Over 3,500 participants from 45 countries and more than 300 startups, presenting themselves to investors from firms like EQT Ventures, Balderton, Lakestar, e& capital, and Mubadala, testified to the significant interest in the event. The summit also recorded high online traffic: 4.7 million views were counted during the event, and the number of posts under the hashtag #MCS2025 is expected to exceed 5 million.
The summit was hosted by the UAE-based Polynome Group under the patronage of Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum. Strategic supporters included Digital Dubai, Dubai Police, Emirates, Amazon Web Services, NVIDIA, IBM, SAP, and MBZUAI.
Alexander Khanin, founder and CEO of the Polynome Group, emphasized the development of the MCS summit: "In just three years, MCS has evolved from a meeting of specialists to a central hub for the world's leading minds in science, business, and politics. The event has shown that we are one step closer to the goal of transparent, human-centered AI that offers real added value for society when researchers, entrepreneurs, and governments come together on one stage."
Several high-profile agreements were signed and initiatives unveiled during the two-day program. These included:
A trilateral memorandum of understanding between Astana Hub (Kazakhstan), IT-Park Uzbekistan, and Al-Farabi Innovation Hub (UAE) to create a soft-landing platform for high-growth startups from Central Asia in the Middle East and North Africa.
An initiative by Google Cloud offering free "Gen-AI Leader" learning paths and discounted certification vouchers to accelerate the responsible adoption of AI in the region.
The official launch of the Polynome Group's AI Academy, an educational initiative developed in collaboration with the Abu Dhabi School of Management and supported by NVIDIA's Deep Learning Institute. The academy will offer short executive seminars and a specialized four-month mini-MBA in AI to equip leaders and innovators with practical AI knowledge and bridge the gap between technology research and commercial application.
The summit offered a wide range of lectures, workshops, and panel discussions. Leading scientists presented groundbreaking research results, including applications of geometric deep learning in drug discovery and the modeling of subatomic physics, as well as systems for scene reconstruction from single view sequences.
Workshops by AWS and NVIDIA provided practical insights into the development of AI applications and the use of generative AI on Hopper GPUs. Dubai Police hosted a closed session on predictive policing, while other workshops addressed the processing of social data pipelines on GPU clusters.
Panel discussions on ethics and security emphasized the need for continuous audits, red-teaming, and transparent supply chains to ensure the responsible application of AI.
The MCS Summit 2025 underscored the importance of three strategic imperatives for the coming decade: The targeted promotion of AI talent, the further development of spatial computing, and ensuring the security of generative AI systems. The summit made it clear that collaboration between research, industry, and politics is crucial to advance the development and application of AI for the benefit of society.
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