Saudi Arabia signs AI agreements with Nvidia and xAI

At the U.S.-Saudi investment event, Saudi Arabia's HUMAIN revealed new AI collaborations with xAI, Nvidia, and other significant businesses, including a plan to install 600K GPUs, construct a 500+ MW data center, and implement Grok across the country. The specifics: In Saudi Arabia, xAI plans to construct its first global data center and implement Grok across the country using HUMAIN's agent platform for usage by businesses and the government. In addition to its infrastructure in the Middle East, the HUMAIN transactions construct Nvidia-powered data centers in the United States for the first time. Along with previous HUMAIN partnerships with AMD, Cisco, Adobe, and Qualcomm, AWS will also supply 150K processors to Saudi Arabia's "AI Zone" data center. The AI video platform Luma AI has revealed a $900 million fundraising campaign headed by HUMAIN to construct a 2GW supercluster for multimodal model training that would launch in 2026. According to reports, the U.S. government authorized sales of AI chips to HUMAIN and the UAE's G42, allowing exports in the area to resume after earlier restrictions. The floodgates are open, and everyone is prepared to take advantage of the large sums of money, energy, and land that are ready for datacenters, despite prior prohibitions and national security concerns about AI transactions in the Gulf region. Saudi Arabia is rapidly becoming a significant player in the sector because to its significant actions.