AIREV has announced that His Excellency Dr Thani bin Ahmed Al Zeyoudi, Minister of Foreign Trade, has assumed the chairmanship of the Emirati company specialising in agentic artificial intelligence, which operates the OnDemand platform — an agentic AI operating system with proprietary specifications developed in the United Arab Emirates and currently operating in markets around the world.
The move aligns one of the UAE's leading technology companies with the national trade agenda, at a time when the country is working to broaden its export base to include digital services and high-value artificial intelligence services. The UAE aims to increase its exports of services linked to advanced technologies and digital services as part of the country's foreign trade strategy.
His Excellency Dr Thani bin Ahmed Al Zeyoudi, Minister of Foreign Trade and Chairman of AIREV's board of directors, affirmed that the growth witnessed in the agentic AI sector in the country, with contributions from companies such as AIREV, reflects the next phase of the UAE's export ambitions.
He said: "The UAE has succeeded in building one of the most dynamic trade economies in the world, and our next step is to export not only goods and services, but also locally developed technology and its associated intellectual property."
He added: "AIREV is a UAE company whose platform and innovative solutions have earned the trust and adoption of a number of the world's largest technology companies, reaching the most in-demand markets around the globe. I look forward to working with the company's team during its upcoming expansion phase, in a way that ensures its contribution to achieving our national targets of increasing non-oil service exports and reinforcing the UAE's position as a global hub for advanced industries."
AIREV entered the UAE market in February 2024 through the Next Generation Foreign Direct Investment initiative, with support from Core42, a subsidiary of G42 Group. Over approximately two and a half years, the company evolved into a comprehensive agentic operating platform for productive use cases, with an estimated valuation of around 200 million dollars.
Over the past year, the company established a network of strategic partnerships spanning the global AI and semiconductor ecosystem. It concluded a strategic partnership with Intel to optimise the performance of the OnDemand platform on Intel processors, and subsequently to provide autonomous AI agents on AI-enabled Intel computers.
AIREV also registered the OnDemand platform in the North American market and established a distribution network extending from Abu Dhabi to US technology companies — a first for a UAE software company combining chip certification, pre-installation on devices, and commercial registration in the US market within an integrated framework.
The scale of this activity is reflected in usage metrics: the company's combined products surpassed 1 trillion tokens in 2025, a milestone unprecedented for a Gulf technology company of this size, while the second quarter of 2026 alone recorded 6.8 trillion tokens — approximately six times the previous level. Every token generated outside the country represents a unit of UAE-developed intelligence exported to global markets.
On the distribution front, Redington, one of the largest technology distributors in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia, was appointed as the official distributor for AIREV solutions for the period 2026–2027, with plans to expand into European markets, giving the OnDemand platform broad reach through established distribution channels.
Mohammed Khalid, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of AIREV, said: "His Excellency Dr Thani Al Zeyoudi assuming the chairmanship of the board represents an important milestone in the company's journey, by connecting the UAE's foreign trade strategy — built on expanding the country's network of trade partners — with a company whose strategy is entirely based on exporting developed technology to markets around the world. Our goal is to prove that Emirati artificial intelligence is competitive and globally exportable."
AIREV's expansion into target global markets aligns with the UAE's objectives of transitioning from an importer of advanced technology to an exporter of it, transforming every deployment of the OnDemand platform outside the country into a non-oil export value generated by local software engineering — the highest-margin and fastest-growing category within the economic diversification targets set out in the We the UAE 2031 vision.