Saudi Aramco takes a 49% stake in AI company Humain for ~$2.6B in cash plus AI and compute assets; PIF keeps 51%
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- 3 of 5
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- 2 November 2026
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- Cash: ~SAR 9.9B ($2.6B) in 2026, plus Aramco’s AI, compute and digital assets; stake held by a wholly owned Aramco subsidiary
- Humain (launched May 2025): data centers, cloud, models (ALLaM Arabic multimodal LLM) and AI solutions; 3 GW target by 2030
- Amin Nasser (Aramco CEO): ‘The Humain deal is very important to Aramco’
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Press
- GamesBeat: Aramco to buy 49% stake in Humain for $2.6B (Nov 1)gamesbeat.com, press
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