Deal Value
Undisclosed
Announced
Wednesday, July 29, 2026
Deal Details
SDAIA and Nvidia launched a generative AI Center of Excellence and the ALLAM Arabic chat application to strengthen Saudi Arabia’s position as a regional AI hub.
A cloud computing partnership providing infrastructure and compute resources.
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