Humain

Foundation Models

Saudi Arabia's sovereign AI company, shipping enterprise AI platforms, developer APIs and the Arabic-native HUMAIN IQ alongside its own models.

Supplied by: NVIDIA

Press release · 9 Sep 2026
Total funding—
Valuation—
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Founded2025
HeadquartersRiyadh, Saudi Arabia
StatusPrivate
humain.com

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SenseTimePublic · $7.7BHUMAIN COMPUTE and SenseCore do comparable work on GPU cloud and model training; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute, serve a model in production and train or fine-tune a model; Humain's scale not recorded.4 of 6 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareBaiduPublic · $31.6BHUMAIN COMPUTE and Baidu Baige AI Computing Platform do comparable work on GPU cloud and model training; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute, serve a model in production and train or fine-tune a model; Humain's scale not recorded.5 of 6 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareNebius GroupPublic · $61.6BHUMAIN COMPUTE and Nebius AI Cloud do comparable work on GPU cloud and model training; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute, serve a model in production and train or fine-tune a model; Humain's scale not recorded.3 of 6 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareLambdaPrivate · $1.5B raisedHUMAIN COMPUTE and Lambda Cloud do comparable work on GPU cloud and model training; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute, serve a model in production and train or fine-tune a model; Humain's scale not recorded.3 of 6 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAlibabaPublic · $273.4BHUMAIN COMPUTE and Alibaba Cloud Elastic GPU Service do comparable work on GPU cloud and model training; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute, serve a model in production and train or fine-tune a model; Humain's scale not recorded.4 of 6 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareOraclePublic · $454.4BHUMAIN COMPUTE and OCI Compute for GPUs do comparable work on GPU cloud and model training; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute, serve a model in production and train or fine-tune a model; Humain's scale not recorded.6 of 6 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareRunPodPrivateHUMAIN COMPUTE and Pods do comparable work on GPU cloud and model training; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute, serve a model in production and train or fine-tune a model; scale not recorded for either.4 of 6 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareTencentPublic · $510.1BHUMAIN COMPUTE and Tencent Cloud HAI do comparable work on GPU cloud; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute and serve a model in production; Humain's scale not recorded.5 of 6 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareCoreWeavePublic · $48.5BHUMAIN COMPUTE and CoreWeave AI Cloud do comparable work on GPU cloud and model training; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute, serve a model in production and train or fine-tune a model; Humain's scale not recorded.4 of 6 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareCrusoePrivate · $10BHUMAIN COMPUTE and Crusoe Cloud do comparable work on GPU cloud and model training; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute, serve a model in production and train or fine-tune a model; Humain's scale not recorded.3 of 6 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareThinking Machines LabPrivate · $12BHUMAIN COMPUTE and Tinker do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production and train or fine-tune a model; Humain's scale not recorded.2 of 6 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareLiquid AIPrivateHUMAIN COMPUTE and LEAP do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production and train or fine-tune a model; scale not recorded for either; ships application and platform rather than the same layer.2 of 6 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareMistral AIPrivate · $13.8BHUMAIN COMPUTE and Mistral AI Cloud do comparable work on GPU cloud and model training; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute and train or fine-tune a model; Humain's scale not recorded.2 of 6 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAMDPublic · $785.1BHUMAIN COMPUTE and AMD Developer Cloud do comparable work on GPU cloud and model training; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute, serve a model in production and train or fine-tune a model; Humain's scale not recorded.3 of 6 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareNAVER CloudPrivateHUMAIN COMPUTE and ML expert Platform do comparable work on GPU cloud and model training; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute, serve a model in production and train or fine-tune a model; scale not recorded for either.4 of 6 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareIntelPublic · $463.7BHUMAIN COMPUTE and Intel Tiber AI Cloud do comparable work on GPU cloud and model training; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute, serve a model in production and train or fine-tune a model; Humain's scale not recorded.3 of 6 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareDecartPrivate · $4BHUMAIN COMPUTE and Decart Optimization Stack do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production and train or fine-tune a model; Humain's scale not recorded.2 of 6 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareKuaishouPublic · $18.6BHUMAIN COMPUTE and Vanchin do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production and train or fine-tune a model; Humain's scale not recorded; ships application, developer tool and 2 more rather than the same layer.2 of 6 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareTogether AIPrivate · $8.3BHUMAIN COMPUTE and Together GPU Clusters do comparable work on GPU cloud and model training; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute and train or fine-tune a model; Humain's scale not recorded.3 of 6 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareBlack Forest LabsPrivate · $3.3BHUMAIN COMPUTE and Open Weights Licensing do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; Humain's scale not recorded.1 of 6 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareModalPrivate · $466M raisedHUMAIN COMPUTE and Modal do comparable work on GPU cloud; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute and serve a model in production; Humain's scale not recorded.4 of 6 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareEleutherAINonprofitHUMAIN COMPUTE and GPT-NeoX do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; Humain's scale not recorded; EleutherAI is a nonprofit, with no independent scale; ships developer tool rather than the same layer.1 of 6 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareCore42PrivateHUMAIN COMPUTE and Core42 Sovereign Public Cloud do comparable work on GPU cloud; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; scale not recorded for either.3 of 6 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareDell TechnologiesPublic · $360.7BHUMAIN COMPUTE and Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute, serve a model in production and train or fine-tune a model; Humain's scale not recorded.3 of 6 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareWeights & BiasesAcquiredHUMAIN COMPUTE and W&B Serverless RL do comparable work on GPU cloud and model training; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; Humain's scale not recorded; Weights & Biases is acquired, with no independent scale.3 of 6 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareHuawei CloudPrivateHUMAIN COMPUTE and GPU Accelerated Cloud Server do comparable work on GPU cloud; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; scale not recorded for either.4 of 6 capabilitiesShared product typeCompare4ParadigmPublic · $2BHUMAIN COMPUTE and 4Paradigm Sage AIOS do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production and train or fine-tune a model; Humain's scale not recorded; ships application, hardware and 1 more rather than the same layer.3 of 6 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareUnslothPrivateHUMAIN COMPUTE and Unsloth do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production and train or fine-tune a model; scale not recorded for either; ships developer tool rather than the same layer.2 of 6 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareFalPrivateHUMAIN COMPUTE and fal Serverless do comparable work on GPU cloud; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute and serve a model in production; scale not recorded for either.3 of 6 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareKakao EnterprisePrivateHUMAIN COMPUTE and Kubeflow do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production and train or fine-tune a model; scale not recorded for either; ships developer tool and platform rather than the same layer.3 of 6 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareBasetenPrivate · $13BHUMAIN COMPUTE and Baseten do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production and train or fine-tune a model; Humain's scale not recorded.2 of 6 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareCactus ComputePrivateHUMAIN COMPUTE and Cactus both serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; scale not recorded for either.2 of 6 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareUiPathPublic · $7.2BOverlaps on agent orchestration, data analysis, model inference and 2 more; Humain's scale not recorded.5 of 6 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareFireworks AIPrivate · $17.5BHUMAIN COMPUTE and Fireworks AI do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production and train or fine-tune a model; Humain's scale not recorded.3 of 6 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareHuaweiPrivateHUMAIN COMPUTE and MindSpore do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production and train or fine-tune a model; scale not recorded for either; ships developer tool and hardware rather than the same layer.2 of 6 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareIBMPublic · $216.6BOverlaps on agent orchestration, data analysis, model inference and 2 more; Humain's scale not recorded.5 of 6 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareTenstorrentPrivate · $2.6BHUMAIN COMPUTE and Tenstorrent Cloud do comparable work on GPU cloud; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; Humain's scale not recorded.2 of 6 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAmazonPublic · $2.8TOverlaps on agent orchestration, data analysis, model inference and 2 more; Humain's scale not recorded.5 of 6 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareApplied MaterialsPublic · $380.7BHUMAIN COMPUTE and AIx do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute and train or fine-tune a model; Humain's scale not recorded; ships application, hardware and 1 more rather than the same layer.3 of 6 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareTolokaPrivateHUMAIN COMPUTE and Toloka Train do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; scale not recorded for either; ships AI agent, data service and 1 more rather than the same layer.4 of 6 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareDataikuPrivate · $3.7BOverlaps on agent orchestration, data analysis, model inference and 2 more; Humain's scale not recorded.5 of 6 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareHugging FacePrivate · $4.5BHUMAIN COMPUTE and Hugging Face Jobs do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; Humain's scale not recorded.2 of 6 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareCerebras SystemsPublic · $44.4BHUMAIN COMPUTE and Cerebras WSE-3 Turbo (WSE-3T) do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; Humain's scale not recorded; ships hardware, model API and 1 more rather than the same layer.2 of 6 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareComet MLPrivate · $70M raisedHUMAIN COMPUTE and Comet Artifacts do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; Humain's scale not recorded; ships application, developer tool and 1 more rather than the same layer.2 of 6 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareAppenPublicHUMAIN COMPUTE and AI Data Platform do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; scale not recorded for either; ships data service and platform rather than the same layer.1 of 6 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareGraphcorePrivateHUMAIN COMPUTE and IPU (Intelligence Processing Unit) do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; scale not recorded for either; ships hardware rather than the same layer.2 of 6 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareSK HynixPublic · $874.5BHUMAIN COMPUTE and HBM3E do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; Humain's scale not recorded; ships hardware rather than the same layer.2 of 6 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompare01.AIPrivateOverlaps on agent orchestration, data analysis, model inference and 1 more; scale not recorded for either; ships application, model API and 1 more rather than the same layer.4 of 6 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompare

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Total funding

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AGBI (2026-09-07) calls Humain "majority-owned" by PIF and reports it recruiting an IPO preparation team -- reworded from the prior 'wholly PIF-owned' note, which may be out of date. "Majority-owned by the Saudi Public Investment Fund, Humain spans data centres, computing infrastructure, software and consumer products." No disclosed external equity round as of 2026-09-24; re-check at the IPO filing.

Employees

Checked — none published

Checked 2026-08-27 and no citable figure found. Four sweeps were run and all came back empty for this company: (1) its own /about, /about-us, /company, /careers, /jobs and /team pages, pattern-matched for a self-published headcount; (2) stockanalysis.com's private-company page, which footnotes each figure to its source; (3) its Forbes company profile, which states a headcount and the month it is as of; (4) a targeted web search. Everything the search returned was a LinkedIn-scraping aggregator, and those disagree with each other by wide margins and cite nothing, so they are not used here. The field is null rather than carrying the round guess it held before.

Founded

Wikipedia · 11 Sep 2026

CORRECTED from a previously recorded 2024: Wikipedia's infobox states "founded" as 12 May 2025, when HUMAIN was launched by Mohammed bin Salman.

Description

Official documentation · 6 Sep 2026

HUMAIN IQ is "a sovereign, Arabic-native AI platform that lets organizations use, build, customize, and deploy enterprise AI", over Chat Enterprise, an API portal, model customisation and hyperscaler foundries. The product nav adds HUMAIN ONE, Fabric, Node, Create and a Horizon device. Models alone were never the whole company.

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