Riyadh - Sharikat Mubasher: HUMAIN, Saudi Arabia’s newly created artificial intelligence (AI) company, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced plans to invest more than $5 billion in a strategic partnership to build a groundbreaking “AI Zone” in the Kingdom.

This first-of-a-kind AI Zone will bring together multiple innovative capabilities, including dedicated AWS AI infrastructure and servers with world-class semiconductors, UltraCluster networks for faster AI training and inference, AWS services, and AI application services to advance the Kingdom’s mission to be a world leader in AI.

The AI Zone reinforces AWS’s long-term commitment to bringing its world-class infrastructure and services to Saudi Arabia. AWS will bring to Saudi Arabia its advanced server and network infrastructure capabilities, as well as its AI and machine learning services, including Amazon SageMaker AI, Amazon Bedrock, and Amazon Q.

Through this collaboration, HUMAIN plans to develop AI solutions using AWS technologies for its end customers. Further, both entities will work together on developing a unified AI agent marketplace and simplifying the discovery, deployment, and management of AI software for the Saudi government.

This partnership will further accelerate the growth of Large Language Models (LLMs), including Arabic Large Language Models (ALLaM), while spearheading wide adoption of AI in organizations and industries across the Gulf Region and beyond.

Commenting on this strategic partnership, Abdullah Alswaha, Minister of Communications and Information Technology, said: “This new collaboration with HUMAIN lays the foundation for the intelligent era, accelerates our innovation momentum, grows our talent, and reinforces Saudi Arabia’s position as a global partner of choice in the age of AI.”

Tareq Amin, CEO of HUMAIN, described the partnership with AWS as a “pivotal moment” in Saudi Arabia's journey to become a global leader in AI. “By leveraging AWS’s world-class cloud infrastructure and AI expertise and HUMAIN’s full-stack AI capabilities, we are creating an offering that will attract global investment and talent, thereby driving our digital transformation agenda forward,” he said.

Moreover, HUMAIN and AWS will work together to advance an AI-powered startup sector in the Kingdom, providing access to cloud technology tools and programs, including AWS Activate, and helping Saudi Arabia’s most ambitious founders and entrepreneurs scale their businesses.