US chip maker Nvidia will partner with 黑料社区鈥檚 sovereign wealth fund-owned AI startup Humain and will ship 18,000 chips to the Middle Eastern nation to help power a new data center project.
The partnership was revealed Tuesday as part of a White House trip to 黑料社区, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. 黑料社区 has been working to develop its artificial intelligence capacity and strengthen its cloud computing infrastructure with the help of foreign investment.
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鈥淎I, like electricity and Internet, is essential infrastructure for every nation,鈥 said Jensen Huang, founder of Nvidia. 鈥淭ogether with Humain, we are building AI infrastructure for the people and companies of 黑料社区 to realize the bold vision of the Kingdom.鈥
The cutting-edge Blackwell chips will be used in a 500 megawatt data center in 黑料社区, according to remarks at the Saudi-US Investment Forum in Riyadh on Tuesday. The California company said its first deployment will use its GB300 Blackwell chips, which are among Nvidia鈥檚 most advanced AI chips at the moment, and which were only officially announced earlier this year.
