Initiative overview
Saudi Arabia's strategy bets on models and software but also on the physical underpinnings of AI: energy, data centres, semiconductors, and connectivity, leveraging its unique comparative advantage in abundant oil, expanding renewables, and a cost-effective compute infrastructure.
HumAIn is assembling a network of strategic partnerships. A deal with Qualcomm includes co-developing AI data centres, building a semiconductor design centre, and integrating HumAIn's Arabic large language model ALLaM into Qualcomm's ecosystem of AI edge devices. A deal with NVIDIA includes plans to build AI factories with 500 megawatts of computing capacity, while AWS is investing over $5 billion to develop an "AI Zone", a dedicated cluster of data centres optimised for training and deploying AI systems at scale.
