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Humain Leads $900 Million Luma AI Raise, Announces 2GW ‘Project Halo’ and AMDCisco Venture

The Saudi PIF-backed firm is tying capital to long-term compute supply to position the kingdom as a global AI infrastructure hub.

Overview

  • Luma AI raised $900 million led by Humain, valuing the startup at about $4 billion to accelerate training of multimodal world models.
  • Humain will build Project Halo, a planned 2‑gigawatt compute supercluster in Saudi Arabia with Luma as the primary customer.
  • AMD, Cisco and Humain are forming a joint venture starting with a 100‑megawatt cluster contracted to Luma that will use AMD MI450 chips, Cisco networking and renewable energy, with construction planned in 2026.
  • Humain announced a partnership with Global AI to deploy sovereign‑ready AI data‑center capacity in the United States.
  • Humain and AWS detailed an AI Zone in Riyadh that plans up to 150,000 accelerators using NVIDIA GB300 infrastructure and AWS Trainium, with AWS set as Humain’s preferred AI partner.