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February 20, 2026
How HUMAIN's US$3bn xAI Investment Secures Saudi's AI Goals
HUMAIN has invested US$3bn in xAI ahead of its SpaceX merger, solidifying the firm's strategic goal of supporting transformational AI opportunities
TL;DR
- HUMAIN invested US$3 billion in xAI during its Series E funding round.
- This investment makes HUMAIN a significant minority shareholder in xAI.
- xAI is set to merge with SpaceX.
- HUMAIN and xAI are partnering to build a 500MW AI data center in Saudi Arabia, powered by NVIDIA chips.
- This data center will serve as xAI's first outside the US.
- xAI's Grok models will be deployed across Saudi Arabia.
- Elon Musk plans to build solar-powered data centers in space for AI compute.
- HUMAIN recently unveiled HUMAIN OS, an AI-powered operating system.
- HUMAIN is developing gigawatt-scale data centers called the HUMAIN Core.
- HUMAIN has partnerships with NVIDIA, Amazon, AMD, and Qualcomm.
- HUMAIN is creating AI models tailored to Saudi culture, language, and context.
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