AMD and HUMAIN unveil $10B plan to accelerate AI across the globe

Over the next five years, the partners will deploy 500 megawatts of scalable, open AI compute capacity to support diverse enterprise, start-up, and sovereign workloads, establishing a critical infrastructure for innovation and global intelligence

AMD has partnered with HUMAIN, Saudi Arabia’s emerging AI enterprise, in a landmark $10 billion agreement to develop one of the world’s most open, scalable, and efficient AI infrastructures. The initiative aims to establish a powerful global network of AMD-based AI computing centers extending from Saudi Arabia to the United States, designed to support the next generation of AI development and deployment.

Over the next five years, the partners plan to deploy 500 megawatts of AI compute capacity. The infrastructure will be open by design and accessible at scale, supporting diverse AI workloads across enterprise, start-up, and sovereign markets. This strategic collaboration positions the new AI backbone as a critical enabler for innovation and global intelligence.

HUMAIN will manage the full delivery stack, including hyperscale data centers, sustainable energy systems, and international fiber connectivity. AMD will contribute its complete AI compute portfolio and the AMD ROCm open software ecosystem, ensuring broad compatibility and high performance. The partnership reflects both companies’ commitment to democratizing AI access while driving economic and technological growth across regions.

“At AMD, we have a bold vision to enable the future of AI everywhere - bringing open, high-performance computing to every developer, AI start-up and enterprise around the world,” said Dr. Lisa Su, Chair and CEO, AMD. “Our investment with HUMAIN is a significant milestone in advancing global AI infrastructure. Together, we are building a globally significant AI platform that delivers performance, openness and reach at unprecedented levels.”

“This is not just another infrastructure play - it’s an open invitation to the world’s innovators,” said Tareq Amin, CEO of HUMAIN. “We are democratizing AI at the compute level, ensuring that access to advanced AI is limited only by imagination, not by infrastructure.”

With initial deployments already underway across key global regions, the collaboration is on track to activate multi-exaflop capacity by early 2026, supported by next-gen AI silicon, modular data center zones, and a developer-enablement focused software platform stack built around open standards and interoperability.

Full-Spectrum AI at Scale

The collaboration will deliver a market-defining value proposition by combining the Kingdom’s energy resources, AI-ready workforce and forward-looking national AI policies with the AMD full-spectrum AI stack including:

·       AMD Instinct GPUs, with industry-leading memory and inference performance.

·       AMD EPYC CPUs, offering world-class compute density and energy efficiency.

·       AMD Pensando DPUs, enabling scalable, secure, and programmable networking.

·       AMD Ryzen AI, bringing on-device AI compute to the edge.

·       AMD ROCm open software ecosystem with built-in support for all AI frameworks (PyTorch, SGLang, etc.)