Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) and HUMAIN, a Public Investment Fund (PIF)-backed full-stack AI solutions company, announced an expansion of their strategic partnership with the launch of an AI Zone in Riyadh, equipped with up to 150,000 AI accelerators. The facility will serve as a global hub for advanced AI compute, training, and inference workloads while providing AWS AI services to customers worldwide.
The AI Zone will feature NVIDIA GB300 AI infrastructure alongside AWS’s proprietary Trainium AI chips, supporting compute-intensive AI workloads such as large-scale model training and inference. By integrating AWS services including Amazon Bedrock, Amazon AgentCore, and Amazon SageMaker, enterprises will be able to deploy generative AI models without managing the underlying infrastructure. This setup aims to accelerate the transition from AI concept to production while ensuring secure, scalable, and reliable operations.
As part of the expanded collaboration, AWS will become HUMAIN’s preferred AI partner globally, and HUMAIN will join the AWS Solution Provider Program, enabling organizations to access AWS services through a unified platform. The partnership builds on a $5 billion joint plan announced in May 2025 to invest in AI infrastructure, services, and talent development in Saudi Arabia.
“This marks a pivotal moment in our partnership with HUMAIN,” said Tanuja Randery, Managing Director, Europe, Middle East & Africa, AWS. “By combining HUMAIN’s local expertise and investment with AWS AI solutions—including NVIDIA’s latest infrastructure, Amazon Bedrock’s foundation models, and AI tools for enterprise users—we are establishing a world-class innovation hub that will serve customers across Saudi Arabia and globally. HUMAIN, as an AWS Solution Provider, will empower organizations to unlock the full potential of generative AI, driving transformation for businesses and government entities. Together, we’re accelerating digital transformation, creating economic growth, and fostering innovation while understanding local needs and global-scale requirements.”
HUMAIN CEO Tareq Amin added: “The AI Zone represents the beginning of a multi-gigawatt journey. From inception, this infrastructure has been engineered to serve Saudi Arabia’s national priorities and the world’s accelerating demand for AI compute. What sets this partnership apart is not only its scale but the way we work together—through a shared commercial model and global market strategy. This facility will create a thriving ecosystem for AI innovation, enabling ideas to be developed, deployed, and scaled internationally with speed and precision. It is a tangible demonstration of our ambition to lead AI adoption responsibly and at scale.”
Beyond infrastructure, AWS and HUMAIN plan to accelerate AI adoption across the public and private sectors. Efforts include the development of advanced Arabic Large Language Models, such as HUMAIN’s “ALLAM,” and a unified AI agent marketplace for government services. On workforce development, AWS will train 100,000 Saudi citizens in cloud computing and generative AI via the Amazon Academy, and a dedicated initiative will upskill 10,000 women, preparing the workforce for an AI-driven economy projected to contribute $130 billion to GDP by 2030.
“This initiative is more than building AI infrastructure; it is about creating an environment where talent, innovation, and enterprise converge,” Randery said. “We want to ensure that Saudi Arabia’s AI ecosystem becomes a global benchmark for responsible, scalable, and impactful AI. By training thousands of citizens and developing advanced AI models like ALLAM, we are laying the foundation for sustained technological leadership.”
The AI Zone, the first of its kind in the Kingdom, combines state-of-the-art AI infrastructure, AWS cloud services, and workforce development programs. It is designed to meet both national AI priorities and global enterprise demand, positioning Saudi Arabia as a major AI innovation hub and establishing AWS and HUMAIN as leaders in the international AI ecosystem.
