Heaptalk, Jakarta — Amazon Web Services (AWS) established a strategic partnership with Humain to build AI Zone in Saudi Arabia through a $5 billion-plus investment.
AI Zone is expected to bring together innovative capabilities, including AWS AI infrastructure and servers, UltraCluster networks for AI training and inference, AWS services like SageMaker and Bedrock, and AI app services such as Amazon Q. This partnership aligns with Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 and builds upon the Kingdom’s pledge in 2024 to invest in building an AI-powered economy. It represents a significant step towards realizing Saudi Arabia’s global AI leadership ambitions.
AWS is building an infrastructure region in the Kingdom that is expected to be available in 2026. Amazon is investing US$5.3 billion in Saudi Arabia to develop this new region for AWS. The latest AI Zone announced is an additional investment to grow global and local demand for advanced AI services in the Kingdom.
His Excellency Eng. Abdullah Alswaha, Minister of Communications and Information Technology, thanked AWS for doubling down on their long-term partnership with the Kingdom. “This new collaboration with Humain lays the foundation for the intelligent era, accelerates our innovation momentum, grows our talent, and reinforces Saudi Arabia’s position as a global partner of choice in the age of AI,” Alswaha stated.
Developing AI services for end customers
Humain is a newly founded company in Saudi Arabia that focuses on driving AI innovation across the Kingdom and globally. Through this collaboration, it plans to develop AI services for its end customers using AWS technologies. Further, it will work with AWS to create a unified AI agent marketplace, simplifying the discovery, deployment, and management of AI software for the Saudi Arabian government.
Tareq Amin, CEO of Humain, conveyed that the company’s partnership with AWS is a pivotal moment in Saudi Arabia’s journey to become a global leader in AI. He said, “By leveraging AWS’s world-class cloud infrastructure and AI expertise and Humain’s full-stack AI capabilities, we are creating an offering that will attract global investment and talent, thereby driving our digital transformation agenda forward.”
The collaboration also intends to spur the growth of large language models (LLMs), including Arabic large language models (ALLaM), while driving the adoption of AI in organizations and industries across the Gulf Region and beyond. Key sectors, such as government, energy, healthcare, and education, will be able to accelerate their transformation, envisioning AI-powered tools that can personalize learning experiences for students, help provide early disease diagnoses for patients, and boost productivity across core upstream and downstream processes for government administration.
Matt Garman, CEO of Amazon Web Services, is optimistic that this collaboration to build an AI Zone in Saudi Arabia will enable innovations across all industries using AWS’s advanced AI offerings and reflect our commitment to support Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030. “Together, we will empower customers with cost-effective and secure cloud technologies, fuel innovation and economic growth across the nation, and enable HUMAIN to appeal to customers globally,” Garman concluded.
