Saudi Arabia’s New Pitch to Wall Street: Less Neom, More AI

Saudi Arabia’s New Pitch to Wall Street: Less Neom, More AI

In 2017, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman sat alongside Steve Schwarzman and Masayoshi Son at the first iteration of Saudi Arabia’s annual financial summit to unveil a next-century city called Neom. The two billionaire investors were quick to heap praise on the $500 billion plan that envisioned a metropolis with more robots than humans and enough solar panels to fill out the Great Wall of China.