As part of a wave of U.S.-Saudi tech announcements coinciding with today’s high-level meetings between President Donald Trump and King Salman bin Abdulaziz, Saudi Arabia has launched HUMAIN, a new Public Investment Fund (PIF)-owned company tasked with leading the nation’s AI transformation across the full value chain—from foundational infrastructure and hyperscale data centers to sovereign AI models and workforce development. Chaired by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and led by Tareq Amin, former CEO of Rakuten Mobile and Aramco Digital, HUMAIN will consolidate Saudi Arabia’s AI initiatives under one roof to drive domestic innovation and establish the Kingdom as a global AI powerhouse.
HUMAIN’s multi-pronged strategy includes a $10 billion partnership with AMD, a $5 billion collaboration with AWS, and a strategic alliance with NVIDIA. These efforts will build up to 500 megawatts of AI compute capacity in the next five years, utilizing AMD’s full AI silicon portfolio and open ROCm software ecosystem. NVIDIA will supply GB300 Grace Blackwell supercomputers and InfiniBand networks to power AI factories, while the AWS collaboration includes creating a dedicated “AI Zone” equipped with UltraCluster infrastructure, SageMaker, Bedrock, and Amazon Q services to accelerate genAI applications and workforce training.
The initiatives align with Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030, aiming to diversify its economy through high-tech innovation. HUMAIN’s infrastructure will serve strategic sectors such as energy, manufacturing, healthcare, and finance. In parallel, it will support the development of multimodal Arabic large language models (LLMs), physical AI platforms via NVIDIA Omniverse, and a unified AI agent marketplace for enterprise and government use cases.
Crucially, HUMAIN’s mission extends beyond infrastructure to human capital development. AWS has pledged to train 100,000 Saudis in AI and cloud skills, including 10,000 women through its new Skills Initiative. The Amazon Academy, the largest tech training program in the Middle East, will facilitate the certifications. Together, these investments are designed to make AI compute resources accessible, scalable, and open—catalyzing a wave of startup activity and fostering homegrown IP across the Gulf and beyond.
- HUMAIN will operate as a full-stack AI company with backing from Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund.
- NVIDIA will deploy 18,000 Grace Blackwell GPUs and Omniverse for physical AI and digital twin simulation.
- AWS and HUMAIN will invest $5B+ to build an AI Zone featuring SageMaker, Bedrock, and UltraClusters.
- AMD and HUMAIN will invest $10B in up to 500MW of AI compute using AMD’s full hardware and software stack.
- HUMAIN will develop Arabic large language models and launch a unified AI agent marketplace.
- Saudi Arabia aims to train 100,000 citizens in AI and cloud technologies by 2030 through AWS-led programs.
- The AI infrastructure will serve energy, healthcare, government, and manufacturing sectors globally.
- Tareq Amin, who previously served as CEO of Aramco Digital, Rakuten Mobile, and Rakuten Symphony, has been appointed CEO of HUMAIN.
“AI, like electricity and internet, is essential infrastructure for every nation,” said Jensen Huang, 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.”
“This is not just another infrastructure play — it’s an open invitation to the world’s innovators,” said Tareq Amin, CEO of HUMAIN. “We are democratizing AI at the compute level.”
“This new collaboration with HUMAIN lays the foundation for the intelligent era,” said His Excellency Eng. Abdullah Alswaha, Minister of Communications and Information Technology. “It accelerates our innovation momentum and reinforces Saudi Arabia’s position as a global partner of choice in the age of AI.”
