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Jensen Huang-led Nvidia to send 18,000 top AI chips to Saudi Arabia; here's what Mohammad bin Salman plans

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Jensen Huang-led Nvidia to send 18,000 top AI chips to Saudi Arabia; here's what Mohammad bin Salman plans to do with them
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has revealed that the chipmaker will be selling over 18,000 of its newest AI chips to Saudi Arabian company Humain, according to CNBC.Huang mentioned that the cutting-edge Blackwell chips would be deployed in a 500-megawatt data centre in Saudi Arabia, as per the report. Nvidia also revealed that its first deployment will use its most advanced and the latest AI chips-GB300 Blackwell chips, according to CNBC.

He announced the company's plans at the Saudi-US Investment Forum in Riyadh on Tuesday, which was as part of a White House-led trip to the region that included US president Donald Trump and other top CEOs, as per the report.

The Nvidia CEO expressed his enthusiasm by saying, “I am so delighted to be here to help celebrate the grand opening, the beginning of Humain,” adding, “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,” quoted CNBC.

He also highlighted that, “Saudi Arabia is rich with energy, transforming the energy through this giant versions of these Nvidia AI supercomputers, which are essentially AI factories,” as quoted in the report.

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While, as per an official press statement, Humain said that it would be owned by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, and will work on developing AI models and also building data centre infrastructure, reported CNBC. Humain has also planned to eventually include deploying “several hundred thousand” Nvidia GPUs, as per the report.

Nvidia will sell over 18,000 of its latest AI chips to Saudi Arabian company Humain, which will be used in a large data centre.
Humain plans to deploy several hundred thousand Nvidia GPUs as it expands its AI capabilities.

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