No sooner had the world discussed the launch of the new Saudi AI company HUMAIN, than stunning news followed on May 14, 2025, about its strategic alliances with semiconductor industry titans – Nvidia and AMD. These partnerships are aimed at creating "AI factories" and an unprecedented scale of computing infrastructure in Saudi Arabia, which should transform the kingdom into a global hub for artificial intelligence and underscore the seriousness of its intentions within the Vision 2030 program.
Alliance with Nvidia: Blackwell Supercomputers and the Omniverse Digital Universe. The collaboration with Nvidia looks particularly impressive. HUMAIN plans to build AI data centers with a total capacity of up to 500 megawatts, which will be equipped with "several hundred thousand" of Nvidias most advanced graphics processing units (GPUs) over the next five years. The first phase of this grand project includes the deployment of a supercomputer based on 18,000 of the latest NVIDIA GB300 Grace Blackwell chips, interconnected by high-speed NVIDIA InfiniBand networking. This will be one of the worlds largest single deployments of these revolutionary AI accelerators, providing colossal computing power for training and deploying large-scale sovereign AI models. Furthermore, HUMAIN will deploy the NVIDIA Omniverse™ platform as a multi-tenant system. This will accelerate the development of physical AI and robotics by creating and simulating digital twins of real-world objects and environments, which is critically important for industries such as manufacturing, logistics, and energy, and will bring the kingdom closer to Industry 4.0 standards. As Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang noted, "AI, like electricity and internet, is essential infrastructure for every nation," and this partnership is designed to realize Saudi Arabias bold vision. Nvidia will also assist in training thousands of local developers.
Partnership with AMD: An Open and Scalable AI Superstructure. In parallel, HUMAIN has entered into an equally significant agreement with AMD, involving an investment of up to $10 billion to deploy another 500 megawatts of AI computing capacity over five years. A key feature of this partnership is the creation of "the worlds most open, scalable, resilient, and cost-efficient AI infrastructure." This network of AMD-centric AI computing centers will span from Saudi Arabia to the US and will be optimized for a wide range of AI workloads across corporate, startup, and government sectors. AMD will provide its full AI portfolio for this project: AMD Instinct™ GPUs, EPYC™ CPUs, Pensando™ DPUs, Ryzen™ AI accelerators, and the AMD ROCm™ open software ecosystem. For its part, HUMAIN will ensure the comprehensive implementation of the project, including hyperscale data centers, sustainable power systems, and global fiber optic connections. Tareq Amin, CEO of HUMAIN, emphasized: "This is not just another infrastructure play - its an open invitation to the worlds innovators." Initial deployments under this collaboration have already begun, with multi-exaflop capacity expected to be activated by early 2026.
These mega-deals not only demonstrate the financial power and strategic vision of HUMAIN and Saudi Arabia but also mark a new stage in the global race for leadership in artificial intelligence. The created infrastructure will allow not only for the development of powerful AI models (including advanced Arabic LLMs, which HUMAIN previously announced) but also for attracting the best minds and projects from around the world, turning the region into a magnet for AI innovation.