Nvidia to sell 18000-plus AI chips to Saudi Arabia, CEO Jensen Huang says ‘I am so delighted to…'
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Nvidia
CEO
Jensen Huang
on Tuesday (May 13) announced that the company will sell over 18,000 of its latest artificial intelligence (AI) chips to Saudi Arabian firm Humain. The announcement was made during the Saudi-U.S. Investment Forum in Riyadh, which is part of a White House-led visit to the region that includes President Donald Trump and several tech leaders including Elon Musk, Sam Altman and Jensen Huang. The chips, part of Nvidia's Blackwell series, will be used in data centers with a total capacity of 500 megawatts. Nvidia said the chips to be deployed first will be the GB300 Blackwell chips, which were officially unveiled earlier this year. These chips are designed for training and deploying advanced AI systems.
What Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said
'I am so delighted to be here to help celebrate the grand opening, the beginning of Humain,' Huang said at the event. 'It is an incredible vision, indeed, that Saudi Arabia should build the AI infrastructure of your nation so that you could participate and help shape the future of this incredibly transformative technology.'
Humain is backed by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund. The company plans to develop AI models and build the required data center infrastructure. According to a press release, Humain aims to eventually use 'several hundred thousand' Nvidia GPUs.
'Saudi Arabia is rich with energy, transforming the energy through these giant versions of these Nvidia AI supercomputers, which are essentially AI factories,' Huang said at the event.
AMD also said it will provide chips to Humain under the same project. According to AMD, Humain has committed $10 billion to build out the 500MW AI capacity. AMD shares gained 4% during trading.
Last week, the US Department of Commerce said it would replace what it called President Joe Biden's export rule on AI chips with a simpler version. Since 2023, Nvidia has needed to apply for an export license to ship some of its AI chips, due to national security rules.
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