AMD, Cisco and Saudi’s Humain launch AI joint venture, land first major customer

Advanced Micro Devices, Cisco Systems and Saudi Arabian artificial intelligence startup Humain are forming a joint venture to build data centers in the Middle East and have landed their first customer, CEOs at the three companies told Reuters in an interview on Tuesday.

The yet-to-be-named joint venture will kick off with a 100-megawatt data center project in Saudi Arabia – the computing capacity of which Humain has contracted to supply generative video startup Luma AI, according to Humain CEO Tareq Amin. The size of the project and the first customer…