Riyadh - Sharikat Mubasher: Saudi Arabia sets its sights on becoming one of the largest artificial intelligence (AI) providers in the world, according to Tareq Amin, Chief Executive Officer of HUMAIN, Saudi Arabia’s first AI company owned by the Public Investment Fund (PIF).

“Our ambition is very clear. We want to be the third-largest AI provider in the world, behind the United States and China,” Amin stated in an interview with CNBC’s Access Middle East.

HUMAIN is taking bold steps to turn this ambition into reality. Recently, the company announced its plans to establish two data centers in Saudi Arabia, with an initial capacity of up to 100 megawatts each, in partnership with the US-based chipmaker NVIDIA.

Further, the PIF company announced developing an AI computer, with plans to launch it within the upcoming months. This milestone coincides with introducing the 'HUMAIN Chat' application, powered by the Arabic-based language model “Allam.”

Moreover, HUMAIN plans to invest heavily to build hyperscale AI data centers in Saudi Arabia with a projected capacity of up to 500 megawatts powered by hundreds of thousands of NVIDIA’s most advanced GPUs over the next five years. The first phase of deployment will be an 18,000 NVIDIA GB300 Grace Blackwell AI supercomputer with NVIDIA InfiniBand networking.