Dubai-based technology company Cognit DX has launched Cortex, an enterprise AI platform designed to move companies from AI experimentation to full-scale deployment.
Founder and CEO Alaa Dalghan unveiled the platform at the Cognit AI Summit 2026 in Dubai, demonstrating its capabilities in front of more than 100 decision-makers, senior leaders and CEOs from the UAE public and private sectors.
Cortex is pitched as an end-to-end enterprise AI platform that puts leading large language models behind a single subscription. The platform offers a single wallet system with pay-as-you-go pricing, integration with a company’s existing tools and knowledge base, agentic capabilities that create digital employees, and full branding and customization, all delivered in a secure and governed manner.
The pitch targets a familiar enterprise pain point. Most large organizations have run AI pilots, but few have pushed the technology into everyday operations. Dalghan said the goal is to close that gap. “Our ambition is to help organisations move from AI experimentation to practical, large-scale adoption, while contributing to the development of local technology capabilities that can grow, scale and compete in global markets.”
Alongside Cortex, the company also launched Cognit AI Studio, a creative arm that applies generative AI to filmmaking and content production. The studio will produce films, commercials, series and digital avatars, and Cognit DX marked the launch by premiering a short film produced entirely with AI.
The summit was an invitation-only gathering built around the business implications of AI. It featured a keynote address by Hani Khalaf, chief technology officer at Dell Technologies, alongside sessions on enterprise AI, agentic AI and the growing role of generative technologies in the economy.
The launch lands in the middle of the UAE’s aggressive push to become an AI producer rather than just a consumer of foreign technology. Dalghan stated the position directly at the summit. “Cognit DX believes that the UAE and the region must be tech-producers, and not merely tech consumers. Today we are acting on this belief with purpose and intent.”
That ambition lines up with the country’s National AI Strategy 2031, which projects that AI will add AED 335 billion to the UAE economy. Emirates NBD research puts the expected contribution at over $96 billion of GDP by 2031, the highest share in the GCC.
Whether Cortex can hold its own against enterprise AI platforms from the US and China remains the open question. But the launch signals that the UAE’s AI story is expanding beyond big-ticket infrastructure deals and into homegrown products aimed at regional and international markets.
