HUMAIN, the AI company backed by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, is dramatically expanding its partnership with NVIDIA, committing to deploy up to 600,000 NVIDIA GPUs – including the latest Blackwell (GB300) platforms – over the next three years. This includes significant infrastructure buildouts in both Saudi Arabia and, notably, the United States. The announcement, made at the US-Saudi Investment Forum in Washington DC, marks a major escalation in HUMAIN’s global AI ambitions.
Key Developments
The expanded agreement builds on an initial plan from May to deploy several hundred thousand NVIDIA GPUs in Saudi Arabia over five years. However, the revised strategy now explicitly targets the US market, with parallel partnerships already underway with American sovereign AI infrastructure company Global AI.
HUMAIN will leverage NVIDIA’s Nemotron open models to train its HUMAIN Chat models, an Arabic-focused conversational AI application powered by the ALLAM large language model. This initiative aims to bring advanced AI capabilities to over 400 million Arabic speakers, fostering localized AI development.
Beyond language models, the partnership will also focus on building advanced digital twin ecosystems powered by NVIDIA Omniverse libraries. These ecosystems will be deployed across key sectors like energy, manufacturing, smart cities, logistics, and large-scale infrastructure development. This indicates HUMAIN’s intent to integrate AI deeply into national-level economic projects.
Strategic Implications: Why This Matters
The 600,000 GPU commitment positions HUMAIN among the largest AI infrastructure builders globally, rivaling hyperscale cloud providers in sheer scale. The addition of the US market is a critical shift. This signals a deliberate effort to establish a strong AI presence in the US, complementing existing partnerships with AMD and Global AI.
This expansion comes alongside a recent policy shift from the US Department of Commerce, which authorized the export of NVIDIA’s advanced Blackwell AI chipsets (up to 35,000 GB300s) to HUMAIN. This approval – granted despite previous restrictions on high-end AI chip exports – highlights the strategic importance of the US-Saudi relationship in the AI domain. Saudi Arabia and the UAE are currently the only two countries outside Tier 1 for US technology exports to receive NVIDIA GB300 approvals.
The Bigger Picture
The HUMAIN-NVIDIA partnership represents a significant investment in future AI capabilities, particularly in the Middle East and now, increasingly, in the US. The combination of massive GPU deployment, localized language models, and advanced digital twin technologies suggests a long-term vision for AI-driven economic transformation. The fact that this is happening concurrently with loosening export restrictions on high-end AI chips underscores the geopolitical stakes involved.
The race to secure AI dominance is intensifying, and HUMAIN’s aggressive expansion, backed by Saudi investment and NVIDIA technology, is a key development to watch.
The partnership is built on foundations established in May 2025, with HUMAIN’s mission to deliver end-to-end AI solutions and global-scale compute capability across next-generation data centers, hyper-performance infrastructure, advanced AI models, and transformative solutions.
