The Saudi Data and AI Authority(SDAIA), a government agency in Saudi Arabia, collaborates with NVIDIA, a US multinational corporation and technology company, with the aim to propel Saudi Arabia to the forefront of AI innovation.
At the core of this collaboration is integrating the latest NVIDIA technology to make it easier for developers to create and implement AI applications with the ALLaM Arabic LLM model, ensuring unparalleled performance and scalability for region-specific workloads.
Leveraging NVIDIA NeMo, part of the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software platform and NeMo Guardrails for AI safety, developers will have a faster and more accessible way to create generative AI applications with ALLaM’s capabilities, which set a new standard for AI-driven language models in the region, making it a pivotal element in Arabic language AI.
Additionally, companies will have access to recently announced NVIDIA NIM Agent Blueprints to support the quick and simple development of customized AI agents for any industry.
Together, SDAIA and NVIDIA are driving a new era of AI-powered transformation in Saudi Arabia, reinforcing the Kingdom’s leadership in AI and digital innovation on the global stage.
In addition to these advancements in AI applications, SDAIA is working closely with NVIDIA to scale its supercomputing infrastructure significantly. Plans are in place to establish one of the largest high-performance computing data centers in the MENA region by expanding SDAIA’s existing NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD infrastructure.
This expansion is planned to integrate NVIDIA’s most advanced technologies, including the upcoming NVIDIA Blackwell architecture, and is expected to eventually grow to over 5,000 GPUs, setting a new benchmark for digital innovation and infrastructure in Saudi Arabia.
This partnership builds upon the successful deployment of the initial SDAIA NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD AI supercomputer and includes a roadmap to exponentially expand supercomputing capabilities while adopting NVIDIA’s best practices for LLM training and deployment. By integrating NVIDIA Triton Inference Server for efficient model deployment and NVIDIA TensorRT software for optimized inference, SDAIA is ensuring that its AI infrastructure remains at the cutting edge of global technology trends.
Together, SDAIA and NVIDIA are driving a new era of AI-powered transformation in Saudi Arabia, reinforcing the Kingdom’s leadership in AI and digital innovation on the global stage.
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