Groq has secured a $1.5 billion commitment from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) for expanded delivery of its advanced LPU-based AI inference infrastructure. This announcement was shared at LEAP 2025 and coupled with the news that Groq is now delivering market leading AI inference capabilities to customers worldwide through GroqCloud™ from its state-of-the-art data center in Dammam, Saudi Arabia.
It’s an honor for Groq to be supporting the Kingdom’s 2030 vision. We are excited to work alongside Saudi innovators to shape the next chapter of AI.”
Jonathan Ross I CEO & Founder, Groq
On stage, Jonathan Ross, CEO and Founder of Groq, alongside Tareq Almin and Ahmad O. Al-Khowaiter, Chief Technology Officer of Saudi Aramco, demonstrated a reasoning LLM, a KSA-created Allam model, and text-to-speech models in English and Arabic running live from the data center in Dammam.
Delivering Operational Excellence at Scale
These announcements follow almost a year of partnership and work between Groq and the KSA. In March 2024, Groq signed a Memorandum of Understanding on stage at LEAP 2024. In September 2024, a partnership was announced to build the world’s largest AI inferencing data center in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
In December 2024, Groq demonstrated operational excellence by building the region’s largest inference cluster. Brought online in just eight days, the rapid installation established a critical AI hub to serve surging compute demand globally.
Build Fast with GroqCloud
As a result, GroqCloud services are now available to nearly four billion people regionally adjacent to the KSA. This deployment of Groq AI inference infrastructure is now enabling service to the EMEA and South Asia markets in ways unseen before.
The $1.5 billion commitment towards Groq AI infrastructure represents a defining moment for both Groq and the Kingdom to deliver on the Vision 2030 goal of an AI-powered economy in Saudi Arabia.
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