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title: "Aramco"
url: "https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/entities/aramco"
language: "en"
type: "Corporation"
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# Aramco

Saudi Arabia's national energy company, active in AI through its digital subsidiary and venture arms.

Aramco appears in 9 stories in the Cicada archive, from 2022 to 2026.

## Every story, oldest first

- 2022-02-01 — [LEAP22 opens in Riyadh; $6.4bn of tech investments reported](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/leap22-opens): The first LEAP technology conference opened in Riyadh on 1 February 2022 and was reported to have secured $6.4 billion of investments in future technologies.
- 2022-02-02 — [Aramco launches $1bn Prosperity7 Ventures at LEAP22](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/prosperity7-launch-leap22): Aramco publicly launched Prosperity7 Ventures, a $1 billion venture fund, on 2 February 2022 at LEAP22, although it had operated for more than a year.
- 2023-02-06 — [LEAP23 in Riyadh announces about $9bn of tech investments](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/leap23-opens): LEAP 2023 ran from 6 to 9 February 2023 in Riyadh and announced about $9 billion of investments; a later organizer recap puts the total at more than $9.5 billion.
- 2024-03-04 — [LEAP24 opens in Riyadh with $11.9bn in announced investments](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/leap24-opens): LEAP 2024 ran from 4 to 7 March 2024 at the Riyadh Exhibition and Convention Center.
- 2024-03-04 — [Aramco unveils Metabrain, a 250bn-parameter industrial AI model](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/aramco-metabrain-2024): At LEAP 2024 Aramco unveiled Aramco Metabrain AI, which the company describes as the industry's first generative AI model, with 250 billion parameters trained on 7 trillion data points from its roughly 90-year history.
- 2024-10-28 — [Aramco's Wa'ed Ventures earmarks $100m for AI startups](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/waed-100m-ai-startups-2024): Wa'ed Ventures, Aramco's wholly owned venture arm, allocated $100 million from its $500 million fund to early-stage AI investments, aiming to position Saudi Arabia as a global AI hub.
- 2025-10-27 — [FII9 closes with over $50bn in deals and pledges](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/fii9-riyadh-2025): The ninth Future Investment Initiative ran from 27 to 30 October 2025 in Riyadh under the theme 'The Key to Prosperity', ending with more than $50 billion in signed agreements and investment pledges across AI, advanced technology, renewable energy and infrastructure.
- 2025-10-28 — [Aramco signs term sheet for significant minority stake in HUMAIN](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/aramco-humain-minority-stake-2025): The Public Investment Fund (PIF) and Aramco signed a non-binding term sheet on 28 October 2025 under which Aramco would acquire a significant minority stake in HUMAIN, with PIF keeping majority ownership and both contributing AI assets, capabilities and talent.
- 2026-03-10 — [Aramco reports $5.3bn technology value for 2025, $2.6bn from AI](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/aramco-ai-technology-value-2025-results): With its 2025 results, Aramco reported Technology Realized Value of $5.3 billion, of which $2.6 billion was attributed directly to AI-driven solutions across about 500 use cases, bringing cumulative value to $11.3 billion since the metric began in 2023, a figure Aramco says is verified by an independent third party.

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