HUMAIN, the Saudi Arabian government-backed artificial intelligence company, has received its first delivery of advanced NVIDIA GPU chips as it accelerates infrastructure development ahead of the new year.
The delivery strengthens the company’s capacity to train and run large-scale AI models and represents a significant step in Saudi Arabia’s ambitions to establish itself as a major global AI hub under its Vision 2030 economic diversification program.
Rapid Deployment Plans
Tareq Amin, HUMAIN’s CEO, announced the shipment Monday on LinkedIn, stating that the team would focus on “rapid deployment, ensuring everything is up and running before the start of the new year.”
“HUMAIN continues to move at remarkable speed,” Amin said, describing the momentum as reflecting “ambition, execution, and a clear commitment to building world-class AI infrastructure at scale.”
NVIDIA’s AI GPU chips are critical components for high-performance computing, enabling accelerated training and deployment of large language models, generative AI systems, and complex simulations through parallel processing capabilities and specialized AI architectures.
Ambitious Partnership
The shipment follows a major expansion of HUMAIN’s strategic partnership with NVIDIA announced in November in Washington, D.C. Under that agreement, HUMAIN plans to deploy up to 600,000 NVIDIA AI infrastructure units over the next three years, including the latest GB300 platforms.
The partnership encompasses development of NVIDIA-powered AI data centers in Saudi Arabia while also expanding into the United States, creating what the company describes as large-scale sovereign AI infrastructure capable of supporting advanced model training, secure inference, and enterprise workloads.
Arabic Language Focus
As part of the collaboration, HUMAIN is working with NVIDIA Nemotron open models to develop HUMAIN Chat, an Arabic-language conversational AI built on the company’s ALLAM large language model. The initiative targets more than 400 million Arabic speakers worldwide.
The company is also advancing physical AI and digital-twin projects by integrating NVIDIA Omniverse libraries into national AI platforms, with applications planned across energy, manufacturing, smart cities, aviation, logistics, and infrastructure projects.
Multiple Strategic Partnerships
Beyond NVIDIA, HUMAIN has established several significant partnerships to expand its AI infrastructure:
The company has entered a strategic arrangement with U.S.-based Global AI to develop large-scale AI data centers and compute capacity in the United States using NVIDIA GB300 infrastructure connected by NVIDIA Quantum-X800 InfiniBand networking.
HUMAIN is also collaborating with xAI to develop a network of data centers in Saudi Arabia, anchored by a flagship facility exceeding 500 megawatts. The project represents xAI’s first major deployment outside the United States and will support future Grok model training and inference operations.
Additionally, HUMAIN has expanded collaboration with Amazon Web Services, under which AWS will deploy and manage up to 150,000 NVIDIA GPUs within a dedicated AI Zone in Riyadh designed for advanced training and inference workloads.
Global AI Ambitions
HUMAIN was launched in May 2025 by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) to develop and manage advanced AI technologies, build an integrated AI-powered digital ecosystem, and support economic diversification under Vision 2030, the kingdom’s long-term development strategy.
“Our continued partnership with NVIDIA is central to HUMAIN’s mission,” Amin said in November. “This integrated presence gives us the strength and scale to fuel the future of global AI innovation.”
NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang described the collaboration as positioning Saudi Arabia as a major global AI hub, calling AI “essential infrastructure” for every industry and economy.
By securing early access to cutting-edge AI computing power and accelerating deployment across Saudi Arabia and the United States, HUMAIN is positioning itself as a significant player in global sovereign AI infrastructure and next-generation digital industries, though the company faces competition from established technology centers in North America, Europe, and Asia.
Source: https://modernaitoday.com/saudi-arabias-humain-receives-first-shipment-of-latest-nvidia-ai-chips/
