Overview
- The Commerce Department authorized each company to purchase the equivalent of up to 35,000 Nvidia Blackwell-class GB300 chips under rigorous security and reporting requirements.
- Saudi PIF-backed Humain unveiled partnerships with xAI, Nvidia, AMD, Qualcomm, Cisco and others, with xAI named the first customer for a roughly 500‑megawatt data center in the kingdom.
- Humain said its projects will deploy about 600,000 Nvidia GPUs, while AMD committed chips that could require as much as 1 gigawatt of power by 2030 and Qualcomm agreed to 200 megawatts of data center chips.
- AWS said it plans to provide, deploy and manage up to 150,000 AI accelerators in a dedicated Riyadh AI zone as part of the broader buildout of high‑density compute in Saudi Arabia.
- Humain led a $900 million funding round for Luma AI tied to building a 2‑gigawatt Saudi compute cluster called Project Halo, as Saudi planners press ambitions to become a top global AI infrastructure hub.