As part of the collaboration, HUMAIN will designate at least 50 megawatts (MW) of dedicated AI compute capacity to support Cohere”s next-generation foundation models, with the ability to scale the deployment over the next five years as compute demand increases.
HUMAIN, a PIF company building full-stack artificial intelligence capabilities globally, and Cohere , the leading sovereign AI company, announced a strategic AI compute collaboration that will provide dedicated AI infrastructure for the next generation of frontier AI models. The companies will also collaborate on the development of enterprise AI solutions and special-purpose sovereign AI models.
Announced during the visit of The Right Honourable Mark Carney, Prime Minister of Canada, to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the collaboration represents a significant expansion of AI compute capacity expected to be live by Q4 2027 and will combine HUMAIN’s rapidly growing AI infrastructure platform with Cohere’s frontier model development expertise.
As part of the collaboration, HUMAIN will designate at least 50 megawatts (MW) of dedicated AI compute capacity to support Cohere’s next-generation foundation models, with the ability to scale the deployment over the next five years as compute demand increases.
“The future of artificial intelligence will be defined by access to compute. Frontier AI models require infrastructure at unprecedented scale. The fact that Cohere has selected HUMAIN for the first significant international AI compute deployment outside North America underscores the strength of the AI infrastructure we are building and our ability to support the next generation of model research and development.”
– Tareq Amin, Chief Executive Officer, HUMAIN
Cohere has secured access to one of the region’s largest dedicated AI deployments, featuring large-scale accelerated infrastructure purpose-built for model R&D, reinforcement learning, inference optimization, and future research. In parallel, Cohere and HUMAIN are collaborating to advance enterprise AI adoption across the region, combining Cohere’s secure enterprise AI expertise with HUMAIN’s full-stack capabilities to help organizations deploy trusted AI solutions that enhance productivity, knowledge management, customer engagement, and operational efficiency.
Building on this infrastructure, HUMAIN and Cohere will collaborate on the development of sovereign AI models, including Arabic-language and domain-adapted foundation models, as well as special-purpose AI models tailored to enterprise and sector-specific use cases. The collaboration will leverage each company’s respective AI technologies, technical expertise, and intellectual property.
“To build increasingly capable AI models, you need reliable access to high-performance compute. Our partnership with HUMAIN gives us the AI infrastructure that provides the scale and flexibility needed for future generations of enterprise AI models while supporting our long-term compute requirements. In addition, we look forward to collaborating on frontier AI initiatives, including the development of sovereign AI models, that will greatly benefit Saudi Arabia and beyond.”
– Aidan Gomez, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, Cohere
The collaboration reflects the growing importance of AI infrastructure in supporting frontier models. By combining large-scale accelerated compute with Cohere’s model research and engineering capabilities, HUMAIN and Cohere aim to advance the mission of secure, enterprise-grade AI models while expanding regional AI compute capacity. Together, the companies will collaborate on frontier AI initiatives, including enterprise AI solutions and sovereign, Arabic-language, domain-adapted, and special-purpose AI models designed to meet sector-specific requirements.
As demand for frontier enterprise AI continues to grow, the collaboration provides a scalable framework for future expansion, enabling additional compute capacity to support new model programs over time. Together, HUMAIN and Cohere are strengthening the compute foundation for next-generation AI while helping organizations deploy secure, production-ready AI solutions tailored to real-world enterprise needs.
