NVIDIA and Saudi Arabia’s PIF-owned HUMAIN announced today that they are partnering to establish the Kingdom as a leader in AI and digital transformation. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang announced the partnership on stage at the Saudi-U.S. Investment Forum in Riyadh.
The announcement coincides with U.S. President Donald Trump’s visit to the Kingdom, where he secured a $600 billion investment commitment spanning energy security, defense, technology leadership, and access to global infrastructure and critical minerals.
“Our partnership with NVIDIA is a bold step forward in realizing the Kingdom’s ambitions to lead in AI and advanced digital infrastructure. Together, we are building the capacity, capability and a new globally enabled community to shape a future powered by intelligent technology and empowered people,” stated Tareq Amin, CEO of HUMAIN.
NVIDIA chips to power Saudi data centers
HUMAIN is making a major investment to build AI factories in Saudi Arabia with a projected capacity of up to 500 megawatts powered by several hundred thousand NVIDIA’s most advanced 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.
“These hyperscale AI data centers will provide a secure foundational infrastructure for training and deploying sovereign AI models at scale, enabling industries across Saudi Arabia and worldwide to accelerate innovation and digital transformation,” said NVIDIA.
His Royal Highness Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince, Prime Minister and Chairman of the Board of Directors of PIF, announced on Monday the launch of HUMAIN, a PIF-owned company. HUMAIN will operate and invest across the artificial intelligence (AI) value chain as a unified operating company.
Chaired by the Crown Prince, the company will provide a comprehensive range of AI services, products and tools, including next-generation data centers, AI infrastructure and cloud capabilities, and advanced AI models and solutions. The company will also offer one of the world’s most powerful multimodal Arabic large language models (LLMs). With this launch, Saudi Arabia aims to position itself as a global AI hub and a leading center for AI activity outside the United States.
“AI, like electricity and internet, is essential infrastructure for every nation,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. “Together with HUMAIN, we are building AI infrastructure for the people and companies of Saudi Arabia to realize the bold vision of the Kingdom.”
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HUMAIN to deploy NVIDIA Omniverse
HUMAIN will also deploy the NVIDIA Omniverse platform as a multi-tenant system to drive acceleration of the new era of physical AI and robotics through simulation, optimization and operation of physical environments by new human-AI-led solutions. This will allow industries such as manufacturing, logistics and energy to create fully integrated digital twins, boosting efficiency, safety and sustainability while fast-tracking the Kingdom’s journey toward Industry 4.0.
To support this transformation, HUMAIN and NVIDIA will also collaborate on large-scale upskilling and training initiatives, providing thousands of Saudi citizens and developers with hands-on experience in advanced AI, simulation, robotics and digital twin technologies. This effort will contribute to building a robust national AI ecosystem and align with Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 goals of economic diversification and digital leadership.
The announcement comes after the Department of Commerce said last week that it was going to rescind what it called President Joe Biden’s rule, and implement a “much simpler rule.” The U.S. Framework for Artificial Intelligence Diffusion was launched in January, a week before Biden left office. The framework concluded a four-year effort by the Biden administration to limit China’s access to advanced chips and maintain U.S. leadership in AI.
