Humain was presented in May by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salmanjust before President Donald Trump's state visit to Riyadh. Recently, during the Future Investment Initiative conference in the capital of the Kingdom, the project gained clear outlines. It's about huge budgets, an ambitious schedule and a network of partnerships with the most important industry players.
Humain CEO Tareq Amin puts the goal bluntly. Wants to make Saudi Arabia the third largest AI market in the world – around the United States and China.
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Hundreds of billions of dollars for third place
Amin points an advantage that competitors struggling with a shortage of computing power know all too well: cheap, stable energy and ready transmission infrastructure. “We have an advantage in Saudi Arabia. Look at the country's fantastic power grid. We don't have to build stations and feed power to a data center. It saves me 18 months,” he told CNN.
Humain's plan assumes the construction of up to 6 gigawatts of power in data centers located throughout the country by 2034. This means the ability to support gigantic computing clusters for training and running generative models, and thus the foundation for the local AI ecosystem — from start-ups to public administration and industry. To accelerate the pace, the company is joining forces with the largest technology providers: Nvidia, AMD, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Qualcomm and Cisco.
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In addition, an agreement worth USD 3 billion has just been announced. with Blackstone to build data centers in the Kingdom. This move combines Saudi ambitions with American capital and infrastructure know-how.
Unlike traditional investment holding companies, Humain is designed to operate like an operating company. Tareq Amin emphasizes that the company will not only own assets, but will provide products and services based on AI. The first is Humain One – an operating system powered by artificial intelligence that replaces clicking icons with a natural dialogue with the computer. Instead of opening subsequent applications, the user issues commands by voice or text, and the system launches the appropriate chains of agents and performs tasks.
