View: Everyone expects two AI blocs. The Gulf is betting on both

View: Everyone expects two AI blocs. The Gulf is betting on both

Judah’s viewSaudi Arabia is building enormous AI infrastructure, partnering with US firms and using American chips — AWS alone has committed $5.3 billion to data centers in the kingdom. Yet at Riyadh’s LEAP conference this month, state-backed HUMAIN unveiled Arabic technology built on a model from China’s MiniMax.Rather than a contradiction, that’s a strategy.The conventional view of the AI race splits the world cleanly: the US, with Nvidia, the…