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title: "LEAP25 opens with $14.9bn in announced AI and tech investments"
url: "https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/leap25-opens"
language: "en"
event_date: "2025-02-09"
published: "2026-10-03"
last_verified: "2026-10-03"
category: "Events"
publisher: "Cicada (cicadaconsultancy.online)"
license: "CC BY 4.0"
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# LEAP25 opens with $14.9bn in announced AI and tech investments

- Event date: 9 February 2025 (2025-02-09)
- Topic: Events
- In this story: LEAP, Groq, Aramco Digital, Alat, Lenovo, Salesforce, Databricks, Tencent Cloud, SambaNova, Google, Qualcomm, KKR, Gulf Data Hub
- URL: https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/leap25-opens

LEAP 2025 ran from 9 to 12 February 2025 in Riyadh. On opening day Communications Minister Abdullah Alswaha announced $14.9 billion of investments, including $1.5 billion from Groq and Aramco Digital, $2 billion from Alat and Lenovo, $500 million from Salesforce, $300 million from Databricks, $150 million from Tencent Cloud for its first Middle East region and $140 million from SambaNova. Google announced a global AI hub, Qualcomm said it would integrate ALLaM, and KKR and Gulf Data Hub announced a 300 MW data center. The total was described as the largest AI-focused investment announcement in the event's history.

## Key figures

- announced investments: $14.9 bn

## Sources

1. [LEAP 2025 launches, unveils $14.9bn in AI investment](https://gulfbusiness.com/2025/tech/leap-2025-launches-unveis-14-9bn-in-ai-investment/) — Gulf Business, 2025-02-09
2. [LEAP 2025 sees strategic investments exceeding $14.9bn](https://sharikatmubasher.com/media-hub/news/21467621/leap-2025-sees-strategic-investments-exceeding-149bn?lang=en) — Sharikat Mubasher

Archive report. Written in 2026 from contemporary sources and dated to the day the event happened.

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