Tareq Amin, CEO of HUMAIN, announced during an interview on Al Arabiya News Channel the official launch of full-scale operations for AI models in partnership with OpenAI — a strategic move aimed at enabling Saudi Arabia’s AI-powered future.
Amin emphasized HUMAIN’s ambition to position the Kingdom as a global hub for AI model development and training, outlining several major initiatives, including:
• Launching a $10 billion global investment fund through HUMAIN Ventures to support AI startups across the US, Europe, and Asia.
• Strategic partnerships with leading global tech companies:
• Collaboration with NVIDIA to build a supercomputer with more than 18,000 GPUs.
• A $10 billion agreement with AMD to establish robust AI infrastructure within and beyond the Kingdom.
• Partnership with Qualcomm to set up a chip design center in Riyadh.
• Collaboration with AWS to launch the AI Zone and train 100,000 Saudis in AI and cloud technologies.
HUMAIN’s goal is to capture 7% of global AI model training capacity by 2030, with a strong focus on developing AI solutions that enhance the Arabic language and culture — while ensuring full digital sovereignty and compliance with local and international regulations.
By deploying these new open models on Groq’s infrastructure inside HUMAIN’s data centers within Saudi Arabia, all activity is subject to and aligned with the Kingdom’s regulatory, legal, and data sovereignty requirements – a game changer for Saudi enterprises, developers, and public sector innovators seeking global-grade AI with full local compliance.
This enables Saudi individuals and organizations to legally and securely harness the most powerful open models on the planet, without needing to compromise on data privacy, latency, or compliance – all while accelerating the Kingdom’s AI sovereignty goals.
This fusion of OpenAI’s new cutting-edge open-source models, Groq’s best-in class inference chips, and HUMAIN’s sovereign AI infrastructure represents a breakthrough for the Kingdom, and a competitive advantage for global businesses. For developers, enterprises, educators, and governments: this isn’t theory – it’s live.
