Saudi Humain's Korean Investment: The Hidden Background

## Saudi Humane, Partnering with Korea, Declares AI Infrastructure Revolution At **COMEUP 2025**, Tarek Amin, CEO of Humane, announced the opening of its Korean office in February, emphasizing direct connection with Korea's AI ecosystem and collaboration between the two nations. Humane, a Saudi state-owned AI company, aims to reshape the current monopolistic AI infrastructure cost structure to provide **low-cost, high-performance services**. It proposes prices 20% lower for cloud and 47% lower for inference, planning to handle 20% of global inference traffic by 2030, leveraging its abundant power resources. The company positions itself as a 'full-stack AI enterprise,' encompassing AI infrastructure, data centers, large language models, and cloud. CEO Amin emphasized a 'complementary combination' where Korea's HBM, foundry, and semiconductor design capabilities merge with Saudi Arabia's power, land, and capital. This model, where Korea creates the 'solution' and Saudi Arabia 'expands' it, has the potential to present a powerful alternative to the NVIDIA-centric market. By integrating the preliminary unicorn **Liner** onto the 'Humane One' platform in just four days, Humane demonstrated the global expansion potential of Korean startup technology. This shows the path for Korean AI apps to go global on Humane's infrastructure. CEO Amin directly advised Korean startups on the importance of 'global marketing as much as technological prowess,' promising support through Humane's vast capital and a venture investment fund set to launch in February. Opportunities are opening up for proven AI solutions in fields such as healthcare, finance, search, and industrial automation. A concrete implementation roadmap, including the opening of the Korean office, the venture fund, and a public-private cooperation TF, will commence in February. This is a significant opportunity for Korea's innovation to meet Saudi Arabia's scalability and reshape the global AI landscape.