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One Million Genomes Later, the Bedside Model Still Waits

The UAE has assembled the most complete sovereign healthcare-AI stack any country has built — sovereign compute, a million-sample national genome programme, and a clinical model benchmarked ahead of GPT-4. The model's own authors say it is not yet fit for clinical use. That caveat is the most precise evidence about where the Gulf investment earns its return: in the biobank and data-sovereignty infrastructure, not in the generative layer that sits above them.