AMD and Saudi Arabia’s newly formed AI state-backed venture Humain, struck a deal for a $10 billion collaboration to build an open, scalable AI infrastructure comprising a network of AMD-based AI computer centers from the kingdom of Saudi Arabia to the US. Nvidia and Qualcomm also forged AI-based agreements with Saudi Arabia, as did Amazon and others.
President Trump visited Saudi Arabia this week, striking a flurry of deals between the US and that Arab kingdom, from energy and defense to technology, resulting in a $600 billion investment commitment in the US. Among the deals are strategic collaborations among Humain, Saudi Arabia’s new AI enterprise, and US tech companies to build out AI infrastructure in the kingdom. This includes an agreement with AMD that calls for the parties to invest up to $10 billion.
The collaboration entails constructing a network of AMD-based AI computing centers spanning from Saudi Arabia to the US.
The multi-year agreement entails the deployment of 500MW of AI compute capacity over the next five years. The superstructure, to be built by AMD and Humain, will be open and accessible at scale, according to AMD, and the AI architecture accessible for enterprises, start-ups, and sovereign entities worldwide.
AMD will provide the center’s AI full-spectrum compute portfolio comprising CPUs, GPUs, NPUs, networking, and AMD ROCm open software. This includes:
• Instinct GPUs, with high-capacity memory and inference performance.
• Epyc CPUs, offering compute density and energy efficiency.
• Pensando DPUs, enabling scalable, secure, and programmable networking.
• Ryzen AI, bringing on-device AI compute to the edge.
• ROCm open software ecosystem with built-in support for all AI frameworks (PyTorch, SGLang, etc.)
Humain, meanwhile, will handle the end-to-end delivery, which includes the hyperscale data center, sustainable power systems and energy resources, global fiber interconnects, and an AI-ready workforce. AMD notes the kingdom will also bring to the table forward-looking national AI policies.
According to Lisa Su, AMD chair and CEO, the partnership represents a significant milestone in advancing global AI infrastructure.
The collaboration, said Tareq Amin, CEO of Humain, is democratizing AI at the computer level.
Saudi Arabia is known for its extreme wealth resulting from its oil exports, but the kingdom is looking to diversify its economy. To this end, its Public Investment Fund has established Humain, to enable it to compete globally as an AI hub.
In addition to US government officials, tech CEOs also accompanied Trump on his visit. This includes Elon Musk, OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, and IBM’s Arvind Krishna.
And, AMD was not the only company to walk away with a Humain AI deal. Nvidia sealed a Humain partnership to build AI factories in Saudi Arabia with a reported capacity of up to 500MW. As part of the deal, Nvidia will provide several hundred thousand of its GPUs over the next five years. The first phase will include an 18,000 Nvidia GB300 Grace Blackwell AI supercomputer with Nvidia InfiniBand networking. Qualcomm additionally announced a deal.
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