HUMAIN, a Saudi Arabian Artificial Intelligence (AI) company owned by the kingdom’s sovereign wealth fund – the Public Investment Fund (PIF), has announced that it is partnering with Groq, an AI inference platform, for the full-scale deployment of OpenAI’s newly released open-source models – gpt-oss-120B and gpt-oss-20B, on Groq’s ultra-high-speed inference platform, hosted within Saudi Arabia in HUMAIN’s next-generation sovereign data centers.
By deploying these new open models on Groq’s infrastructure inside HUMAIN’s data centers within Saudi Arabia, all activity is subject to and aligned with the Kingdom’s regulatory, legal, and data sovereignty requirements.
“This is a defining moment for Saudi Arabia,” said Tareq Amin, CEO of HUMAIN. “With the deployment of OpenAI’s most powerful open models, hosted right here inside the Kingdom, Saudi developers, researchers, and enterprises now have direct access to the global frontier of AI – fully aligned with our national regulations and data laws. This is what AI sovereignty looks like, and it’s only the beginning.”
“Groq was built to run models like this – fast, affordably, and at scale,” said Jonathan Ross, CEO of Groq. “Our partnership with HUMAIN gives us a powerful regional and globally central presence in one of the fastest-growing AI ecosystems on the planet. Together, we’re proving what’s possible when world-class infrastructure meets world changing ambition.”
Readers would recall that HUMAIN was launched to operate and invest across the AI value chain as a unified operating company in May 2025. It was unveiled by His Royal Highness Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, who also serves as Prime Minister and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the PIF.
