Abu dhabi: G42, through its sovereign agentic AI company Inception42, and Microsoft have announced a collaboration aimed at advancing the adoption of agentic AI. By enhancing interoperability between their platforms, the two companies are enabling organizations to transition from fragmented AI deployments to a cohesive, enterprise-wide agent ecosystem. This shift provides governments and enterprises with access to a broader range of agents while ensuring data processing remains within the country.
According to Emirates News Agency, this initiative is a significant step towards supporting the UAE's national agentic AI initiative, which aims to integrate AI agents into 50 percent of federal government operations within the next two years. The rapid growth of AI agents presents both opportunities and challenges for organizations. As AI deployment increases across workflows, enterprises and governments face issues such as fragmented deployments, inconsistent governance, and rising technological complexity. Additionally, there are growing requirements for security, compliance, and data sovereignty. This collaboration addresses these challenges by offering a unified ecosystem of AI agents and productivity tools within a governed, sovereign operating layer at a national scale.
Inception42's Catalyst, an enterprise and government agent operating system, is designed to function with sovereign infrastructure, ensuring all data is processed domestically. It can operate on-premise, in a sovereign cloud, or in the public cloud, and integrates with existing organizational data sources to build an 'AI Brain'. Agents created in Catalyst are delivered through Compass, Core42's sovereign model and infrastructure layer, and integrate directly into Microsoft 365 Copilot. Conversely, agents developed within Copilot naturally integrate back into Catalyst.
The collaboration, accelerated by Microsoft Forward Deployed Engineers, provides governments and enterprises with a shared operational framework across people, data, applications, and agents. This facilitates AI deployment with increased consistency, accountability, and impact as organizations progress from experimentation to production-scale adoption.
The partnership brings together three essential layers of enterprise AI that organizations frequently seek separately: sovereign infrastructure, intelligent agent orchestration, and everyday user adoption. This reduces complexity and offers organizations a trusted foundation for scaling AI across industries, functions, and teams. Ashish Koshy, CEO of Inception42, stated, "This integration reflects how sovereignty and interoperability work together," emphasizing the comprehensive platform that Catalyst offers for building, governing, and observing agents.
Amr Kamel, General Manager of Microsoft UAE, added, "Customers are looking for AI that is powerful, trusted, governed, and practical to adopt," highlighting the collaboration's creation of a foundation for organizations to confidently scale AI. By enabling agents to operate with data processed domestically and integrated into everyday tools, the collaboration aids governments and enterprises in accelerating innovation while maintaining control, security, and compliance.
This partnership signifies a broader shift occurring across the region, as governments and enterprises strive to build AI capabilities on their own terms, supported by the necessary infrastructure, partnerships, and talent for long-term sustainability.