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Humain, the new AI subsidiary of Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF), has signed three separate strategic partnerships with AMD, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Nvidia that will help put the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on the map when it comes to AI development.
As part of its partnership with AMD, the two organisations will invest up $10 billion to deploy 500 megawatts of AI compute capacity over the next five years.
According to AMD, the AI “superstructure” to be built will be “open by design, accessible at scale, and optimised to power AI workloads across enterprise, start-up and sovereign markets”.
Humain said it will oversee end-to-end delivery of these new structures, while AMD will provide the full spectrum of the AMD AI compute portfolio and the AMD ROCm open software ecosystem.
Humain will also leverage its deal with Nvidia to ensure the new “AI factories” will be powered by several hundred thousand of Nvidia’s GPUs over the next five years. The first phase of deployment will be an 18,000 Nvidia GB300 Grace Blackwell AI supercomputer with Nvidia InfiniBand networking.
Humain will also deploy the Nvidia Omniverse platform as a multi-tenant system to accelerate the development of physical AI and robotics through simulation and operation of physical environments by new human-AI-led solutions.
“This is not just another infrastructure play – it’s an open invitation to the world’s innovators,” Humain CEO Tareq Amin said.
“We are democratising AI at the compute level, ensuring that access to advanced AI is limited only by imagination, not by infrastructure.”
The Saudi company said the work with AMD is on track to activate multi-exaflop capacity by early 2026.
Meanwhile, Humain’s deal with AWS will see the pair invest more than $5 billion to build a “first-of-a-kind AI Zone” in the Kingdom. It is expected to feature dedicated AWS AI infrastructure and servers with semiconductors, UltraCluster networks for faster AI training and inference, AWS services like SageMaker and Bedrock, and AI application services such as Amazon Q.
Through this work with AWS, Humain said it plans to develop solutions using AWS technologies for its end customers.
“The collaboration also intends to spur the growth of Large Language Models (LLMs), including Arabic Large Language Models (ALLaM), while spearheading wide adoption of AI in organisations and industries across the Gulf Region and beyond,” AWS stated.
Further, Huamin will work with AWS on the development of a unified AI agent marketplace, simplifying the discovery, deployment, and management of AI software for the Saudi Arabia government.
These deals Humain align with Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 of becoming one of the top five leading countries in digital transformation.
