RIYADH: Saudi Arabia has become the first nation in the region to implement OpenAI’s newest open-source models – gpt-oss-120B and gpt-oss-20B – through a partnership with HUMAIN, a company supported by the Public Investment Fund, and the US AI hardware company Groq. The OpenAI models are now fully functional on Groq’s ultra-high-speed inference platform, housed in HUMAIN’s sovereign data centers in Saudi Arabia, guaranteeing adherence to local regulatory and data sovereignty standards.
This implementation helps Saudi developers, researchers, and enterprises by offering them access to advanced AI tools that were once limited to foreign infrastructure or compliance issues. The models provide fast, low-latency performance, with gpt-oss-120B running at over 500 tokens per second and gpt-oss-20B surpassing 1,000 tokens per second on the Groq infrastructure. Both models come with a 128,000-token context window and built-in features like real-time code execution and semantic search, making them ideal for complex reasoning tasks and large-scale language applications.
This initiative represents an important advancement in Saudi Arabia’s efforts to localise AI innovation as part of its Vision 2030 strategy aimed at developing a digital economy and becoming a global AI hub. By hosting advanced models in the country, the Kingdom strengthens AI sovereignty, minimises data latency, and improves regulatory compliance, creating major opportunities for both public and private sectors to use and experiment with generative AI technologies in a safe setting.
