The Trump-MBS bromance is making headlines with the US President stating ‘I Like You Too Much’ to the Saudi Prince. Amid this blooming US-Saudi ties, Nvidia announced sending 18,000 high-end AI chips to the Saudi company Humain. These chips will be used in data centres totalling 500 megawatts in the Royal Kingdom.
While attending the inauguration of Humain, Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, stated
“It is an incredible vision, indeed, that Saudi Arabia should build the AI infrastructure of your nation so that you could participate and help shape the future of this incredibly transformative technology.”
Huang further added about the Saudi potential of investment in this emerging technology,
“Saudi Arabia is rich with energy, transforming the energy through this giant versions of these Nvidia AI supercomputers, which are essentially AI factories.”
Blackwell Chips
The semiconductor giant announced that it will send GB300 Blackwell chips to Saudi Arabia in the first deployment. These chips were launched recently by Nvidia and could be used to train and deploy advanced AI software like ChatGPT. Notably, Nvidia is facing licensing challenges with its H20 AI chip export to China due to national security issues.
Saudi AI Vision: Humain
Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund owns Humain. It is being established to boost Saudi advancement in the AI domain. The company will be building data centres, potentially deploying several hundred thousand Nvidia graphics processing units.
