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Cloud or on-premises AI in the UAE: data residency requirements, the PDPL and sector rules

The PDPL lets personal data leave the UAE under set conditions; health data and bank records face stricter rules, and the DIFC and ADGM run…

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How much VRAM does a 70B model need? Worked examples from the UBM AI simulator

How much GPU memory Llama 3.3 70B and Jais 2 70B need at 16-bit, 8-bit and 4-bit, what 10 and 50 users add in cache, which GPUs hold them…

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Running AI on your own servers in the UAE: LLM hardware requirements, from one GPU to a cluster

What a private LLM needs from a server: GPU memory for the weights, a KV cache for every conversation, and memory bandwidth for speed…

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