The Riyadh-based arm of the kingdom’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) is committing at least 50 megawatts of processing power to host and run the Toronto-headquartered company’s AI models and tools. Cohere and Humain will also work together on new Arabic-language systems and industry-specific products. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. (The Logic)

Talking point: This is Cohere’s first announced compute deal outside North America. The firm has been expanding its sources of processing power; three weeks ago, it secured the capacity that Buzz HPC will generate out of a 14-megawatt Bell data centre in Merritt, B.C. Greater compute demand typically reflects growing immediate or projected usage of a developer’s AI tools. Cohere has been making a push in the Gulf, and already counts Saudi telecom firm STC Group as a client. It previously co-developed language- and region-specific models with tech giants Fujitsu in Japan and LG CNS in South Korea. The PIF launched Humain in May 2025 as the operating arm of Saudi Arabia’s ambitious AI strategy. It’s since done several deals, including with Groq to set up compute capacity, and for a stake in xAI.