#SaudiArabia #LEAP5 - San Francisco-headquartered AI cloud platform Together AI has partnered with Saudi sovereign entity HUMAIN to build a 250-megawatt data centre in the Kingdom. Announced at LEAP 2026, the strategic deal links HUMAIN’s multi-chip physical hardware footprint directly to Together AI’s global customer base and open-source inference platform. The initiative targets $5 billion in gross annualised revenue during its first year of operation, leveraging Saudi Arabia’s grid capacity to serve compute-heavy training and inference workloads across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. By pairing capital-intensive physical infrastructure with an established software ecosystem, the project addresses global power limits while offering developers an alternative site for hosting enterprise workloads.
SO WHAT? - This deal links Saudi physical capacity directly to a major open-source cloud platform, with Together AI bringing both developer reach and global demand to the project. It will allow developers worldwide to deploy models on Saudi-based hardware without building custom integration tools.
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San Francisco-based platform Together AI signed a strategic partnership with Public Investment Fund entity HUMAIN at LEAP 2026 in Riyadh.
The collaboration includes constructing a 250-megawatt Saudi data centre to handle high-performance training and inference tasks.
Commercial projections estimate the partnership will yield more than $5 billion in gross annualized revenue during its initial operating year.
The joint effort combines HUMAIN’s capital deployment and hardware footprint with Together AI’s open-source developer ecosystem and cloud tools.
Situated in Saudi Arabia, the facility utilizes local power capacity to offer low-latency connectivity to clients across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.
The agreement supports HUMAIN’s goal to build an end-to-end AI value chain covering data centres, cloud platforms, foundation models, and applications.
ZOOM OUT - The 250MW Saudi deal follows Together AI's $800 million Series C round in July 2026, which was led by Aramco Ventures and valued the platform at $8.3 billion. By leveraging capital from Saudi Arabia's energy sector, the San Francisco startup secures the physical energy grid capacity and hardware needed to scale its inference infrastructure 50-fold. For Saudi Arabia, backing open-source platforms provides a clear path to decentralising compute access, reducing reliance on proprietary models, and embedding Kingdom-funded data centres directly into the global AI software supply chain.
[Written and edited with the assistance of AI]
Source: Together AI, HUMAIN, various
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