AWS and Saudi Arabia's Humain Forge $5B AI Alliance to Propel Kingdom's Vision 2030

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and HUMAIN, the recently established Saudi business in charge of advancing AI innovation in the Kingdom and around the world, on 13 May revealed their intentions to invest more than $5 billion in a strategic cooperation to establish a ground-breaking "AI Zone" in the Kingdom.

 To further Saudi Arabia's goal of becoming a global leader in AI, this first-of-its-kind AI Zone will combine a number of cutting-edge capabilities, such as specialised AWS AI infrastructure and servers with top-tier semiconductors, UltraCluster networks for quicker AI training and inference, AWS services like Bedrock and SageMaker, and AI application services like Amazon Q.

In Saudi Arabia, AWS has already declared and is constructing an AWS infrastructure region that will be operational by 2026. To establish this new area for AWS, Amazon is spending US$5.3 billion (about 19.88 billion Saudi riyals) in Saudi Arabia.

As part of AWS's long-term commitment to provide its top-notch infrastructure and services to Saudi Arabia, the new AI Zone announced today represents an additional investment to increase the Kingdom's demand for advanced AI capabilities both locally and globally.

Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030

This partnership is in line with Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030 and expands on the Kingdom's 2024 commitment to invest in creating an AI-powered economy. It is a major step in achieving Saudi Arabia's goal of becoming a global leader in AI.

AWS will introduce its cutting-edge server and network infrastructure capabilities to Saudi Arabia along with its machine learning and artificial intelligence services, such as Amazon SageMaker AI, Amazon Bedrock, and Amazon Q, which are fully managed solutions for developing and expanding generative AI (genAI) applications.

Businesses and governmental entities in Saudi Arabia can create GenAI apps with security, privacy, and responsible AI by using Amazon Bedrock to access high-performing models from top AI startups.

In addition to being the most proficient coding assistant in the world, Amazon Q helps businesses create GenAI-powered assistants that can answer queries, produce content, summarise information, and finish tasks using enterprise data.

 HUMAIN intends to use AWS technologies to create AI solutions for its end users as a result of this partnership. Additionally, HUMAIN and AWS will collaborate to create a common marketplace for AI agents, which would make it easier for the Saudi Arabian government to find, implement, and oversee AI software.

 Together with leading the widespread adoption of AI in businesses and sectors throughout the Gulf Region and beyond, the partnership aims to promote the development of Large Language Models (LLMs), such as Arabic Large Language Models (ALLaM).

Accelerating the Digital Transformation of the Region

Important industries like government, energy, healthcare, and education will be able to accelerate their transformation.

AI-powered tools that can help patients receive early disease diagnoses, personalise learning experiences for students, and boost productivity across essential upstream and downstream government administration processes are all on the horizon.

 In collaboration with HUMAIN, the AWS Generative AI Innovation Centre will accelerate use cases like these, allowing clients—from the biggest corporations and fastest-growing startups to government organisations—to scale GenAI roadmaps and workloads, resulting in the fair and effective provision of essential services for a greater impact on society.