His Highness Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Vice President, Deputy Prime Minister and Chairman of the Presidential Court, on 13 October 2026 chaired a meeting of the Ministerial Council for Artificial Intelligence and Development at Qasr Al Watan in Abu Dhabi. The UAE Cabinet issued an official English statement and an Arabic counterpart. The Emirates News Agency (WAM) also reported the meeting.
According to the Cabinet, the council reviewed updates on FedAI, “the national technical ecosystem for Agentic AI,” and the national capabilities building programme, along with multiple Agentic AI projects currently being developed across various sectors of government work. The Arabic statement uses the official rendering المنظومة التقنية الوطنية للذكاء الاصطناعي المساعد, and names the programme FedAI.
The council discussed updates on connecting ministries and federal entities to the ecosystem and the related action plan. It was also briefed on efforts to build capabilities and train federal government employees on Agentic AI models and tools, the phased rollout of AI agents in the next phase in line with the project timeline, and several projects under development in regulatory intelligence and strategic government work.
The statement does not give figures or a detailed calendar for the rollout. It says only that the phases follow “the project timeline.”
The same meeting also covered business beyond AI. The council discussed proposed federal legislation on the tax system and the country’s strategic reserves of essential commodities, as well as government policies on public health, culture, government infrastructure assets and cybersecurity. It reviewed results of national strategies and programmes in areas including foreign investment, tourism and the National In-Country Value Programme in industry.
In government affairs, the council reviewed Federal National Council recommendations on government policy to strengthen the role and status of Arabic as the UAE’s official language and a core component of national identity, and updates on FNC recommendations on boosting birth rates.
The agenda presents FedAI as a standing item for a ministerial body that is now reviewing, in the same sitting, federal onboarding, staff training, a phased agent rollout and work on regulatory intelligence. The operational detail of the connection plan and the agent timetable was not published in the 13 October statement.