Overview
HUMAIN is Saudi Arabia's Public-Investment-Fund-backed national AI champion, building large-scale NVIDIA GPU AI factories. Launched in 2025, it deployed an initial 18,000 NVIDIA GB300 cluster and announced plans for up to 600,000 GPUs over three years across the Kingdom and the US, with up to 500 MW of power. It is neocloud-shaped but sovereign-directed.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- None on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Key facts
Data & sources
Web sources
5
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Partnerships
Every company HUMAIN has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most recent
- HUMAIN x AMD (AI compute)2025-05-13with AMDjust announced
- HUMAIN x NVIDIA (AI factories)2025-05-13with NVIDIAjust announced
- HUMAIN x AWS (AI Zone)2025-05-13with AWSjust announced
Relationships
Current leadership (2)
- Mohammed bin Salman Foundersecondary-verified
- Tareq Amin CEOsecondary-verified
Safety record
No incidents on record for HUMAIN.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
HUMAIN on the data-center map
Every verified data center HUMAIN operates that has a mapped coordinate (1 total). Filled circles are Tier-2 facilities and Tier-1 campuses under this operator; click any pin to open its record.
HUMAIN data centers (1)
AI data centers HUMAIN operates or is a party to, from the DEPLOY data center registry.
Recent coverage
HUMAIN in third-party press
Mentioned on (2)
Registry pages whose text names HUMAIN.
People (2)
Partnerships
3 total · 3 just announced
Every company HUMAIN has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most recent
- HUMAIN x AMD (AI compute)2025-05-13with AMDjust announced
- HUMAIN x NVIDIA (AI factories)2025-05-13with NVIDIAjust announced
- HUMAIN x AWS (AI Zone)2025-05-13with AWSjust announced
All 3 partnerships
open in the atlas →- technology2025-05-13announcedjust announced
- technology2025-05-13announcedjust announced
- HUMAIN x AWS (AI Zone)withAWS976technology2025-05-13announcedjust announced
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdAug 30, 2026
Added to the verified registry
Sources (5)
- HUMAIN and NVIDIA Announce Strategic Partnership to Build AI Factories in Saudi Arabia · https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/humain-and-nvidia-announce-strategic-partnership-to-build-ai-factories-of-the-future-in-saudi-arabia · 2025-05-13
- HUMAIN to deploy 600,000 NVIDIA GPUs across KSA, USA · https://www.middleeastainews.com/p/humain-to-deploy-600000-nvidia-gpus · 2025-11-20
- Saudi Arabian AI venture Humain buys 18,000 Nvidia GB300 chips · https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/saudi-arabian-ai-venture-humain-buys-18000-nvidia-gb300-chips-several-hundred-thousand-more-on-the-way/ · 2025-05-01
- https://newsroom.amd.com/news/amd-and-humain-form-strategic-10b-collaboration/ · 2025-05-13
- https://press.aboutamazon.com/2025/5/aws-and-humain-announce-groundbreaking-ai-zone-to-accelerate-ai-adoption-in-saudi-arabia-and-globally · 2025-05-13
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Methodology: Verified · 5 sources (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-10-13
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-10-13
Sources by quality tier
- 5
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for HUMAIN.In the press
Recent coverage mentioning HUMAIN from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
Saudi HUMAIN-M3 Builds on MiniMax M3 as Nations Hunt Open-Weight AI Bases
PIF-backed HUMAIN launched an Arabic frontier model on MiniMax's open MoE stack—showing how sovereign AI projects are turning Chinese open weights into national starting points.
Saudi AI firm Humain unveils Arabic model built on MiniMax M3
The launch comes as Saudi Arabia seeks more control over AI technology.
HUMAIN Horizon Ultra AI PC unveiled with Snapdragon X2 Elite and on-device AI
Qualcomm and HUMAIN unveiled Horizon Ultra at LEAP 2026, an AI PC built on the Snapdragon X2 Elite that can run AI tasks locally and switch to the cloud only when it needs extra…
AMD, Cisco, And HUMAIN Bring MI355X AI Systems Live In Saudi Arabia With Up To 1 GW Planned By 2030
AMD, Cisco and HUMAIN have brought production AI infrastructure online in Saudi Arabia using AMD Instinct MI355X GPUs, AMD EPYC CPUs and Cisco Silicon One-based networking,…
AWS to launch first Saudi Arabia cloud region by December
HUMAIN’s ALLAM Arabic model will soon be available through Amazon Bedrock.
Adobe offers free AI tools to 27 million Saudis in $4 billion Humain deal
Adobe is making one of its biggest AI distribution bets yet, offering more than 27 million people in Saudi Arabia a year of free access to its generative AI tools as part of an…
Saudi AI Firm Humain, Applied Intuition Partner on Self-Driving Trucks
Saudi Arabia’s Humain is partnering with Applied Intuition Inc. to deploy self-driving trucks by 2030, as the kingdom’s leading artificial intelligence firm looks to find…
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/humain.md
- RSS feed: /companies/humain/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/c39dd490-8600-4e60-817d-a5dc1063bdb9
- Revision history: /companies/humain/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Reality vs attention
Not enough verified signal yet to place HUMAIN against peers. Reality and attention percentiles publish once the underlying record clears its data floor.
6-month trend
Analysis
Limited public visibility and press coverage relative to peers.
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Oct 14, 2026
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