Saudi’s Oil Wealth Is Moving to AI. Now MBS Needs Trump’s Blessing
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Tareq Amin has a sales pitch that’s opened virtually every door in Silicon Valley: If you’re looking for AI computing power, come to Saudi Arabia.
This week, the chief executive officer of the kingdom's state-backed tech firm, Humain, is headed to the White House as part of a mission to convince the Trump administration to give the country access to the cutting-edge American chips it needs to pull off those deals and become one of the largest artificial intelligence infrastructure players in the world.