WASHINGTON — Amazon Web Services Inc. and HUMAIN, a public investment fund delivering global full-stack AI solutions, announced plans to provide, deploy and manage up to 150,000 AI accelerators in a data center facility known as an “AI Zone” in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
As part of the expanded partnership, AWS will become HUMAIN’s preferred AI partner globally, and the two companies will collaborate to bring AI compute and services from Saudi Arabia to customers worldwide.
The first-of-a-kind AI Zone will support cutting-edge AI training and inference workloads with access to the latest NVIDIA GB300 AI infrastructure and AWS’s Trainium AI chips, according to a press release announcing the deal.
The infrastructure will support a broad range of compute-intensive AI workloads, including model training and running inference for AI applications. This will enable customers to rapidly move from concept to production while responsibly leveraging NVIDIA infrastructure and AI software seamlessly integrated with AWS infrastructure and services.
This industry-leading, accelerated computing infrastructure—delivered with the security, scale, and reliability required to run AI workloads with confidence—will establish Saudi Arabia’s first AI Zone as among the most modern and innovative in the world.
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The AI Zone will support global enterprises and technology innovators and will serve both Saudi Arabia's national AI needs and the rapidly growing global demand for compute. The availability of specialized AWS generative AI services, including Amazon Bedrock, Amazon AgentCore and Amazon SageMaker, will give customers immediate access to leading foundation models through a single platform. Amazon Bedrock abstracts away infrastructure management, enabling customers to access foundation models without needing to select or manage the underlying compute infrastructure.
“This marks a pivotal moment in our commitment to our partnership with HUMAIN,” said Tanuja Randery, managing director, Europe, Middle East & Africa, AWS. “By combining HUMAIN's local expertise and investment with AWS AI solutions—including our advanced infrastructure, hardware partnerships with NVIDIA, the transformative AI platform Amazon Bedrock, and AI solutions for business users including Amazon Quick Suite—we're establishing a world-class innovation hub that will serve customers across Saudi Arabia and around the globe.”
