Governments and companies outside the U.S. and China are increasingly pursuing 'sovereign AI' to avoid dependence on foreign AI systems, with efforts ranging from Europe's data protection to Asia's lo…
Saudi Arabia's state-backed AI company Humain released its HUMAIN M3 model on September 2, 2026, built on open weights from Chinese AI firm MiniMax and fine-tuned on over 1 trillion Arabic tokens, ach…
Saudi Arabia opened LEAP 2026 in Riyadh with more than $15 billion in technology launches, investments, and partnerships, anchored by HUMAIN, the AI company owned by the Public Investment Fund and cha…
MinIO is partnering with Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund-owned HUMAIN to build the data foundation for a sovereign Saudi AI Stack, with MinIO named HUMAIN's data and memory foundation partner. Th…
Together AI, a San Francisco-based cloud infrastructure provider for open-source AI models, has partnered with Saudi Arabia's HUMAIN to build a 250-megawatt data center that will supply 120,000 AI chi…
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced plans to launch a dedicated infrastructure region in Saudi Arabia by December 2026, with an investment exceeding $5.3 billion (SAR 19.88 billion). The region will f…
Saudi Arabia's sovereign AI firm Humain has partnered with US-based Applied Intuition to deploy self-driving trucks in the Kingdom by 2030, marking the first planned deployment of 'physical AI' in the…
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced at LEAP in Riyadh that its first cloud infrastructure region in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is on track to launch in December 2026, representing more than $5.3 bill…
AMD, Cisco, and HUMAIN launched a joint venture to build up to 1 GW of AI data center infrastructure in Saudi Arabia by 2030, starting with a 100 MW deployment using AMD Instinct MI450 GPUs and Cisco …
Microsoft and HUMAIN, a Saudi-backed AI company founded in May 2025, announced a long-term partnership on August 26 to integrate HUMAIN's ALLAM Arabic language models into Microsoft 365 Copilot and Az…
Saudi brothers Ibrahim and Khalid Al Moammar have amassed a combined fortune of roughly $1.4 billion, according to Bloomberg's Billionaires Index, after their company Al Moammar Information Systems Co…
Mistral and HUMAIN, the AI company owned by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, announced a strategic collaboration valued in the hundreds of millions of euros to build 'sovereign AI infrastructure…
Mistral AI announced on June 24, 2026, a strategic collaboration with HUMAIN, a company owned by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, to develop localized frontier AI models, infrastructure, and dep…
Mistral AI has partnered with HUMAIN, a Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund-backed entity, in a deal valued at hundreds of millions of euros to develop sovereign AI models for Arabic language proces…
HUMAIN, an AI company majority-owned by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, unveiled its first consumer device, the Horizon Pro AI laptop, at Qualcomm's Snapdragon Summit on September 25. Powered b…
Saudi Arabia's Humain, operating under the Public Investment Fund, partnered with Toronto-based Cohere to develop sovereign AI models and expand compute capacity in the Middle East. Humain committed a…
Sovereign wealth funds are shifting hundreds of billions of dollars from public markets into private AI deals, with allocations projected to reach 29% of assets under management by 2025. Major investm…
Saudi Telecom Co. (stc) and Public Investment Fund-backed Humain extended their memorandum of understanding by six months to establish a Saudi AI data center joint venture, according to a Tadawul fili…
SpaceX's IPO prospectus reveals that Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds, including Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund and UAE-based MGX, hold significant stakes in Elon Musk's rocket company and…