A band of American technological companies announced agreements in the Middle East while Donald Trump has cheated on $ 600 billion in commitments From Saudi Arabia to American artificial intelligence societies during a tour of the Gulf States.
Among the biggest offers was a set signed by Nvidia. The company will sell hundreds of thousands of ia chips in Saudi ArabiaWith a first slice of 18,000 of his new “Blackwell” tokens going to humans, Reuters, Reuters reported. Cisco said on Tuesday to have signed an agreement with G42, the IA company based in the United Arab Emirates, to help the company develop the AI sector of this country.
Trump plans to visit the water on Thursday. The New York Times reported on Monday that its administration Approach an agreement to allow the United Arab Emirates to buy large volumes of AI fleas from Nvidia.
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Transactions will flow in both directions. The White House said the Saudi company Datavolt would invest $ 20 billion in AI data centers and energy infrastructure in the United States. According to the White House, Google, Datavolt, Oracle, Salesforce, Advanced Micro Devices of Alphabet, will invest $ 80 billion in processing technologies in the two countries, although no other detail has been available.
Cisco said he had entered into an agreement with the G42 of water “to assess the potential” to work together on cybersecurity technologies that use AI as well as on IA data center technologies.
Saudi Arabia, which seeks to make its economy less dependent on oil income, aims to position itself as a center for AI and a leading center for AI activity outside the United States. The pivot is recent: on Monday, the crown prince Mohammed Bin Salman announced the launch of the human, who will develop and manage AI technologies in Saudi Arabia. The two companies said they would exploit Nvidia platforms to establish Saudi Arabia as a world leader in AI, GPU cloud computing and digital transformation.
The command of the most advanced semiconductors in the world, vital for advanced AI, put Trump in a powerful negotiation position while it runs in the Middle East. The agreements with Saudi Arabia for the ia chips contrast strongly with the strict restrictions that the United States has imposed to negotiate the goods with China. Nvidia in particular has been forbidden to sell its latest models to Chinese companies, although some have always been able to match the AI of American companies, in particular In depth.