As part of a larger push by US President Donald Trump to strengthen business links during his Gulf visit, American technology companies are strengthening their relationships with Middle Eastern allies through a wave of multi-billion-dollar artificial intelligence (AI) investments.
Trump has reportedly gotten Saudi Arabia to invest $600 billion to US businesses, with significant announcements coming from Nvidia, AMD, Qualcomm, and other corporations, according to Reuters. The Trump administration’s efforts to center its foreign policy in the area around US-led technological alliances align with these actions.
Humain, a recently established AI business supported by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, lies at the heart of these advancements. Over the next five years, Nvidia plans to supply Humain with hundreds of thousands of its state-of-the-art AI chips, starting with an initial batch of 18,000 Grace Blackwell (GB300) processors. In order to establish Saudi Arabia as a global center for artificial intelligence and digital transformation, Humain and Nvidia plan to construct “AI factories” in the kingdom that can process up to 500 megawatts of GPU processing power.
A US-based company called Global AI announced intentions to work with Humain to construct a data center in New York utilizing Nvidia processors in a different announcement that was covered by Bloomberg. In addition, Amazon and Humain are investing over $5 billion together to establish a “AI Zone” in Saudi Arabia. This would use AWS cloud technology to power government services and an AI agent marketplace. Prior to this, AWS had pledged $5.3 billion to develop cloud infrastructure in the kingdom.
Cisco Systems has also joined the battle, extending its relationship with Abu Dhabi-based G42 and stating that it will integrate its worldwide experience with Saudi Arabia’s AI aspirations. In the meanwhile, STV, a Saudi venture capital firm supported by Alphabet, established a $100 million AI fund targeted at MENA early-stage firms.
The Biden-era AI diffusion regulation, which placed extensive limitations on chip exports, has been repealed as part of the Trump administration’s efforts to facilitate these agreements. The US President Trump administration is moving toward nation-specific discussions, according to Bloomberg, opening the door for reliable friends like Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to obtain premium AI processors from Nvidia and AMD.
An impending deal is anticipated to let the UAE to acquire 500,000 of Nvidia’s most cutting-edge processors a year until 2027, greatly surpassing prior export restrictions. According to reports, G42 will receive one-fifth of these chips, with the remaining portion going to US-led data center projects in the United Arab Emirates.
According to reports, OpenAI is also looking at plans to construct a sizable data center in the United Arab Emirates, which might increase its influence in the area. As part of a larger trip by US tech executives, CEO Sam Altman is now in the Gulf.
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