Bloomberg quoted people familiar with the matter as saying that the United States plans to approve the first sale of advanced artificial intelligence chips to Saudi Arabia’s AI company Humain. It is worth noting that this time coincides with the tim...
Bloomberg quoted people familiar with the matter as saying that the United States plans to approve the first sale of advanced artificial intelligence chips to Saudi Arabia’s AI company Humain. It is worth noting that this time coincides with the time when Saudi Arabia Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) went to the White House to meet with US President Trump and promised to invest up to US$1 trillion in the United States.
These approvals are expected to be part of a broader AI agreement between the United States and Saudi Arabia. The deal could be finalized as soon as this week. Since 2023, Saudi Arabia has required a U.S. license to import such chips. It is reported that the meeting also included the CEOs of Chevron, Qualcomm, Pfizer and other companies.
This bilateral agreement not only helps Humain obtain a chip export license, but also benefits American companies with projects in Saudi Arabia. Recently, the United States has also issued similar licenses to large American technology companies building data centers in the United Arab Emirates. Previously, the United Arab Emirates was also affected by US chip export restrictions.
Trump said that the agreement will involve "a certain number of chips." The number of approvals is expected to be in the tens of thousands of semiconductors, a person familiar with the matter said, without providing further details.
After Trump met with the crown prince, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said, "We will pair them with some of the largest American technology companies, and a Saudi Arabian startup will receive a small number of chips as a basis for construction." He did not disclose the name of the company or other details.
There is currently a strong demand for AI in the Persian Gulf region. If the United States approves it, it will help NVIDIA and AMD supply chips to the Middle East market.
Humain Chief Executive Tareq Amin told Bloomberg last month that the company is waiting for chip export licenses from NVIDIA, AMD, Qualcomm and California chip startup Groq. Previous reports indicate that Humain will announce multi-gigawatt data center projects in cooperation with companies such as AMD, Amazon, xAI and GlobalAI.
Humain was funded by the Saudi Public Investment Fund, and Crown Prince Tareq Amin personally serves as chairman. The company has become a core project of the Kingdom’s investment through AI.
During the meeting with Trump at the White House, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman emphasized the importance of artificial intelligence to the country, believing that AI will help drive Saudi Arabia’s economic growth and that the country has a huge demand for unique computing capabilities. He also stated that he will invest approximately US$50 billion in the semiconductor field in the short term.
Tareq Amin said last month that the company plans to deploy as many as 400,000 AI chips by 2030.
Currently Humain has launched Arabic chatbots, operating systems and other AI tools. The company has committed to building 6.6 gigawatts of computing power by 2034, which is equivalent to being used by approximately 4.95 million U.S. households at any time, and is comparable in scale to the U.S. OpenAI's "Stargate" project.
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