Riyadh, Saudi Arabia – May 2025 — In a landmark move to reshape the global AI infrastructure landscape, Saudi Arabia’s newly established national AI company, HUMAIN, has announced a $10 billion joint venture with Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), a leading U.S. semiconductor and AI technology company.
The partnership aims to build a global AI hyperscaler that will roll out 50 megawatts (MW) of computing power by Q4 2025, scaling up to at least 500MW over the next five years.
The agreement, signed during the Saudi-US Investment Forum held in conjunction with the state visit of U.S. President Donald Trump, also includes Cisco as a strategic infrastructure partner. The joint venture’s operations will begin in Saudi Arabia, with further expansion planned in the United States and globally.
“This AI joint venture opens a new chapter in sovereign AI,” said Keith Strier, AMD’s Senior Vice President of Global AI Markets, in an exclusive statement to Middle East AI News. “HUMAIN is forging the way forward to Sovereign AI 2.0.”
The new Saudi-led entity will leverage AMD’s full-stack compute platform, including:
EPYC™ CPUs for energy-efficient compute density.
Instinct™ GPUs for AI training and inference.
Pensando™ DPUs for programmable and scalable networking.
Ryzen™ AI for edge computing.
ROCm™ open software ecosystem, supporting PyTorch, SGLang, and other frameworks.
This model supports Saudi Arabia’s strategic vision for “silicon diversity” and AI resilience, complementing other AI chip partnerships with firms such as Nvidia and Groq.
With a deep focus on sustainability, data center investments, and global connectivity through fiber networks, HUMAIN will lead the development of facilities, while AMD will contribute its advanced chipsets and software tools.
“Together, we are building a world-class AI platform that delivers unprecedented performance, openness, and scale,” said Dr. Lisa Su, President and CEO of AMD.
The project is also expected to create hundreds of direct jobs and thousands of indirect jobs both within the Kingdom and internationally. It provides a unique opportunity for AI startups, labs, and sovereign entities to access high-performance compute resources.
“This is not just another infrastructure play,” said Tareq Amin, CEO of HUMAIN. “It’s an open invitation to the world’s innovators. We are democratizing AI at the compute level, ensuring that access to advanced AI is limited only by imagination, not by infrastructure.”
The announcement follows the recent unveiling of HUMAIN by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who described the company as a strategic initiative by the Public Investment Fund (PIF) to deliver full-stack AI capabilities across:
Next-gen data centers.
High-performance cloud infrastructure.
Advanced multilingual LLMs (including Arabic).
Sector-specific AI solutions.
With implementation plans already underway, the HUMAIN-AMD joint venture is poised to set a new global benchmark in sovereign AI collaboration. More operational details and expansion phases are expected to be released in the coming weeks.
