Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Saudi Arabia's Humain are partnering up for a multi-billion dollar new investment

Humain, the newly announced AI venture from Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund, is partnering with Amazon Web Services. The two companies will invest some $5 billion to build an 'AI Zone' in the Kingdom, which is separate to the cloud provider's existing $5.3bn region set to come online next year.

The two entities also plan to develop large language models (LLMs), including Arabic-focused models, to support AI adoption in key sectors

AMD remains in a distant second place to Nvidia in terms of AI accelerator sales, but it seems to have found a big customer in Humain. In a separate announcement, it said the two parties will invest up to $10 billion to build 500 megawatts of AI compute capacity in Saudi Arabia, as part of an “AI superstructure.”

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Humain, the arm of Saudi Arabia's public investment fund focused on artificial intelligence, will partner with several U.S. tech companies to build out AI infrastructure in the country.

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AWS and HUMAIN will launch a high-performance AI Zone to scale Arabic LLMs, genAI use cases, and startup innovation