Saudi Arabia’s Humain and Toronto-based Cohere are joining forces to build sovereign AI models and expand compute capacity in the Middle East. The collaboration includes Humain dedicating at least 50 megawatts of AI compute resources to power Cohere’s next-generation foundation models.
What the deal actually looks like
Humain, which operates under Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF), launched in May 2025 with an ambitious mandate: build full-stack AI infrastructure as part of Saudi Vision 2030. The company has set a target of managing 7% of global AI workloads by 2030.
Cohere, founded in 2019 by Aidan Gomez, Ivan Zhang, and Nick Frosst, builds enterprise-focused AI models designed to be secure and customizable.
The partnership will focus on developing sovereign AI models, including Arabic-language variants. Humain already has its own Arabic large language model called Allam, and the Cohere collaboration appears designed to accelerate that work while bringing enterprise-grade capabilities to the region.
