HUMAIN deploys 1,024 Qualcomm AI 100 accelerators
Phase one represents one of largest Qualcomm implementations globally
#SaudiArabia #datacentres – Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund-owned AI company HUMAIN has taken delivery of Qualcomm’s full-stack AI racks, marking another milestone in the company’s AI infrastructure journey. The Qualcomm Cloud AI 100-powered racks are being installed to create a new AI data centre enabling large-scale inferencing and edge-to-cloud hybrid AI where performance, efficiency and low latency are critical, with phase one deploying 1,024 AI accelerators. Announced in October 2025 the new data centre targets 200 megawatts capacity in 2026 and will be one of the largest Qualcomm implementations globally. US software company Adobe will serve as the first customer of the facility.
SO WHAT? – The deployment of Qualcomm’s AI 100-powered racks will create what the companies describe as the world’s first fully optimised edge-to-cloud hybrid AI system. The data centre will enable enterprises and government organisations to harness AI at scale with industry-leading performance per total cost of ownership. Combined with HUMAIN’s Qualcomm’s Snapdragon-powered AI PCs, the data centre addresses the challenge that traditional cloud-only AI deployments create latency constraints for real-time applications, whilst edge-only solutions lack the computational power for complex AI workloads. Qualcomm’s hybrid architectures will optimise performance, efficiency and response times.
Here are some key points about the new AI inferencing data centre:
Saudi Arabia’s national AI company HUMAIN has taken delivery of Qualcomm’s AI 100 accelerator full-stack AI racks, marking another milestone in the company’s AI infrastructure journey. The deployment targets 200 megawatts of capacity during 2026.
The initiative deploys Qualcomm rack solutions designed to deliver high-performance AI inference services with rack-scale performance and superior memory capacity for fast generative AI inference.
Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 Ultra is a performance and cost-optimised AI inference solution designed for generative AI and large language models, with up to 576 MB of on-die SRAM and 64 AI cores per card addressing unique requirements for scaling AI workloads.
The partnership integrates HUMAIN’s Saudi-developed AI models including ALLaM multimodal large language model with Qualcomm’s AI platforms to deliver customer-specific solutions across enterprises and government organisations in the Kingdom and beyond.
Meanwhile, Qualcomm AI200 accelerator is expected to become available by the end of 2026 and the Qualcomm AI250 from 2027. Both could be integrated with the coming phases of the HUMAIN data cetnre. The AI250 will introduce an innovative memory architecture offering a generational leap in effective memory bandwidth and efficiency for AI workloads.
Qualcomm AI200 and AI250 solutions provide industry-leading total cost of ownership for inference workloads, marking what the companies describe as major advancement in enabling scalable, efficient and flexible generative AI across industries through fully optimised edge-to-cloud services.
The collaboration follows an initial agreement announced at the US-Saudi Investment Forum in May 2025 to develop next-generation AI data centres and cloud-to-edge services, covering delivery of cutting-edge AI infrastructure.
ZOOM OUT – In September 2025, HUMAIN unveiled its Horizon Pro AI laptop at Qualcomm's Snapdragon Summit in Hawaii, marking a strategic signal that the agentic AI era has become integral to personal computers. The device integrates Saudi Arabia's ALLaM Arabic-first large language model for local AI processing whilst leveraging hybrid cloud performance. The Edge Devices team of the Riyadh-based firm designed the devices running the latest ALLaM large language models natively on Qualcomm's Snapdragon Elite chipsets. Every new HUMAIN employee receives the company's AI PC on joining.
[Written and edited with the assistance of AI]
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