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U.S.-based AI infrastructure company Velaura AI has raised $110 million in a Series A funding round, achieving a valuation of over $1 billion. The round was led by Seligman Ventures, with participation from Saudi Aramco-backed Prosperity7…
Blossom Accelerator has been officially named the Soft-Landing Partner for LEAP 2026, offering a dedicated pathway for international startups expanding into Saudi Arabia.
Saudi AI company HUMAIN, backed by PIF, unveiled its first enterprise AI PC, the Horizon Ultra, at LEAP 2026. Developed in partnership with Qualcomm over 12 months, the device is powered by the Snapdragon X2 Elite platform and delivers up…
At LEAP 2026, San Francisco-based Together AI and Saudi Arabia's HUMAIN announced a strategic partnership to construct a new 250-megawatt data center in the Kingdom. The collaboration aims to merge HUMAIN's expansive multi-chip AI…
SparkLabs Saudi Arabia will host the SparkLabs KSU Cohort 1 Demo Day at LEAP 2026 on September 3, 2026, showcasing eight of its portfolio startups. The rapid-fire pitches will highlight ventures in deep tech, supply chain traceability…
On August 31, 2026, AMD, Cisco, and HUMAIN announced a major milestone at LEAP 2026: their joint venture's AI infrastructure in Saudi Arabia is now live. Powered by AMD Instinct MI355X GPUs, AMD EPYC CPUs, and Cisco Silicon One-based AI…
Oracle and AMD have expanded their strategic partnership to deploy an unprecedented AI supercluster on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Beginning in Q3 2026, Oracle will be the first hyperscaler to offer a publicly available AI supercluster powered by an initial deployment of 50,000 AMD Instinct MI450 Series GPUs.
At LEAP 2026, Mobiz is exhibiting alongside Microsoft and launching three new enterprise solutions: the Audit Ready Compliance Platform, an Agentic Software Development Platform, and a Multi-Cloud Migration Accelerator.
Think announced its Think Fabric platform at LEAP 2026, marking a significant advancement in bare-metal, heterogeneous AI compute. The platform integrates three core technologies: Node (for high-density cooling), ILM (Intelligent LLM…
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced at LEAP 2026 that its first cloud infrastructure region in Saudi Arabia will launch in December 2026. As part of this expansion, AWS has deepened its strategic partnership with HUMAIN, a PIF-owned company.