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title: "Who's who in Saudi AI"
url: "https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/entities"
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# Who's who in Saudi AI

The organizations, programs, events and laws that shape AI in Saudi Arabia, each with every sourced story about it.

- [HUMAIN](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/entities/humain) — Saudi artificial intelligence company owned by the Public Investment Fund, launched in May 2025 to build AI infrastructure, models and services. (35 stories)
- [Saudi Data and AI Authority (SDAIA)](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/entities/sdaia) — The Kingdom's national authority for data and artificial intelligence, established by royal decree in August 2019. (25 stories)
- [Public Investment Fund (PIF)](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/entities/pif) — Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund and the owner of HUMAIN. (13 stories)
- [Nvidia](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/entities/nvidia) — US chip designer and supplier of AI accelerators. (10 stories)
- [Aramco](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/entities/aramco) — Saudi Arabia's national energy company, active in AI through its digital subsidiary and venture arms. (9 stories)
- [LEAP](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/entities/leap) — Annual technology conference in Riyadh, first held in 2022, where many Saudi AI and cloud investments are announced. (7 stories)
- [Future Investment Initiative (FII)](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/entities/fii) — Annual investment conference in Riyadh, first held in 2017. (6 stories)
- [Aramco Digital](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/entities/aramco-digital) — The digital and technology subsidiary of Aramco. (5 stories)
- [NEOM](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/entities/neom) — Giga-project in northwest Saudi Arabia, announced in 2017; home to the Oxagon industrial zone. (5 stories)
- [DataVolt](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/entities/datavolt) — Saudi data center developer. (5 stories)
- [Oracle](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/entities/oracle) — US software and cloud company. (5 stories)
- [ALLaM](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/entities/allam) — Arabic large language model developed by SDAIA. (4 stories)
- [Global AI Summit (GAIN)](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/entities/gain-summit) — International AI conference hosted by SDAIA in Riyadh, first held in 2020. (4 stories)
- [Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT)](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/entities/mcit) — The Saudi ministry responsible for communications and the digital economy. (4 stories)
- [Qualcomm](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/entities/qualcomm) — US semiconductor company. (4 stories)
- [Groq](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/entities/groq) — US company making AI inference chips and systems. (4 stories)
- [Microsoft](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/entities/microsoft) — US technology company. (4 stories)
- [Google Cloud](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/entities/google-cloud) — Google's cloud computing business. (4 stories)
- [Amazon Web Services (AWS)](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/entities/aws) — Amazon's cloud computing business. (4 stories)
- [Personal Data Protection Law (PDPL)](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/entities/pdpl) — Saudi Arabia's personal data protection law, supervised by SDAIA. (3 stories)
- [stc Group](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/entities/stc) — Saudi telecommunications group. (3 stories)

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