#SaudiArabia #LEAP5 - Adobe has become the first global software company to migrate AI workloads onto HUMAIN’s AI Compute infrastructure, accelerated by Qualcomm Dragonfly AI processors. The move shifts Adobe’s regional AI data captioning workloads onto infrastructure hosted and processed entirely within the Kingdom, following a strategic collaboration first announced between HUMAIN, Qualcomm and Adobe last November.
SO WHAT? - Adobe is not only the first global software company to move migrate regional AI workloads onto HUMAIN’s AI infrastructure, but it’s also a first for Saudi Arabia. To-date AI and data workloads for big tech firms running on the Kingdom’s digital infrastructure have been limited to national use. The exception is probably Groq that runs global neocloud inferencing services via HUMAIN’s data centre running Groq hardware. However, insofar as big tech firms buying inference services from a data centre operator, Adobe is a first and provides a good test for whether HUMAIN’s platform can hold enterprise-grade production workloads internationally.
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Adobe’s regional AI data captioning workloads are now running on HUMAIN’s AI Compute infrastructure, accelerated by Qualcomm’s Dragonfly AI accelerators, keeping both compute and data within Saudi Arabia.
Wassim Chourbaji, Senior Vice President and President of Qualcomm Europe, Middle East and Africa, said Adobe’s decision reflects confidence in the infrastructure being built in the Kingdom and validates Qualcomm’s enterprise-scale AI data centre inferencing strategy.
The deployment builds on a strategic collaboration between HUMAIN, Qualcomm and Adobe first announced at the US-Saudi Investment Forum in November 2025, aimed at making enterprise-grade AI more accessible to businesses in Saudi Arabia.
HUMAIN and Qualcomm expect Adobe’s onboarding to be followed by further migrations from other global companies, positioning this deployment as an early signal of broader industry demand for the platform.
Adobe announced at LEAP 2026 that it is expanding its partnership with the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology and HUMAIN in a separate $4 billion-plus commitment announced at LEAP 2026. The software company is to offer more than 27 million eligible Saudi citizens and residents free access to Adobe Firefly Standard and Adobe Express Premium, alongside a jointly developed Arabic-language image generation model tuned to Saudi culture. The offer is expected to launch by the end of 2026,
ZOOM OUT - HUMAIN began deploying Qualcomm's AI 100 accelerators in February 2026, taking delivery of 1,024 accelerators as phase one of a data centre targeting 200 megawatts of capacity by the end of the year, one of the largest Qualcomm implementations globally. That facility was built around Qualcomm's Cloud AI 100 Ultra chips and designed as what the companies call the world's first fully optimised edge-to-cloud hybrid AI system, integrating HUMAIN's Arabic ALLaM model alongside enterprise workloads. Qualcomm's newer AI200 and AI250 accelerators are expected to be added to later phases.
[Written and edited with the assistance of AI]
Source: Adobe, HUMAIN, Qualcomm, MEAIN
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