Riyadh - Sharikat Mubasher: HUMAIN, the Saudi AI company owned by the Public Investment Fund (PIF), forged a strategic partnership with Together AI, a San Francisco-based AI-native cloud platform, to accelerate AI infrastructure and cloud services in Saudi Arabia.

The partnership, announced during LEAP 2026, targets building a new 250-megawatt data center in Saudi Arabia, connecting HUMAIN’s rapidly expanding AI compute capacity in the Kingdom with global AI-native and enterprise demand, according to the official statement.  

Combining HUMAIN’s large-scale, multi-chip AI infrastructure footprint, expanding cloud, and inference capabilities with Together AI’s global customer ecosystem and AI-native inference platform, this collaboration will offer an additional option for developers, enterprises, and AI-native organizations worldwide to access high-performance AI infrastructure for inference and training workloads, all deployed in data centers throughout the Kingdom.

Tareq Amin, CEO of HUMAIN, said: “This partnership brings together HUMAIN’s infrastructure foundation with Together AI’s leading AI cloud platform and developer ecosystem, creating a powerful environment for innovation, AI adoption, and economic growth. We are strengthening the region’s position as a global hub for AI infrastructure, cloud capabilities, and next-generation AI services.”

In turn, Vipul Ved Prakash, co-founder and CEO of Together AI, commented: “We are thrilled to partner with HUMAIN to unlock tremendous new capacity our customers need. This collaboration brings together what we each do best: HUMAIN’s expertise in large-scale infrastructure and capital deployment, and Together’s best-in-class AI cloud and technical talent.”

The partnership aligns with HUMAIN’s strategy of building the complete AI value chain, spanning data centers, AI infrastructure, cloud platforms, foundation models, and AI applications. It underscores the Saudi company’s continued efforts to expand its capabilities to support a broad range of AI workloads through a multi-workload, multi-chip infrastructure approach designed to serve the evolving needs of developers, enterprises, and AI-native companies.

LEAP2026 takes place from 31 August to 3 September under the theme “Into New Worlds,” bringing together thousands of companies, startups, investors, and technology experts. It is expected to attract more than 1,000 global speakers and experts, 1,800 technology companies, 600 startups, and 1,900 investors, and venture capital representatives.