HUMAIN Says Full AI Stack With 3 Trillion-Parameter Model Arrives December 15
Chief executive Tareq Amin made the pledge at the launch of HUMAIN+, a Riyadh AI training platform with about 1,500 learner places a year that opens in early 2027.
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HUMAIN, the Saudi artificial intelligence company backed by the Public Investment Fund, will make its complete AI stack available on December 15, including a 3 trillion-parameter open-weight model that chief executive Tareq Amin called the largest of its kind in the world.
Amin made the announcement on Wednesday evening at the company's offices in Majdoul Tower in Riyadh, where HUMAIN unveiled HUMAIN+, an applied AI education and training platform due to begin operations in the first quarter of 2027. "The complete stack, December 15, is not far away," he said, according to Arab News.
The claim goes to the centre of Saudi Arabia's sovereign AI pitch. Amin described a stack in which the model, the cloud inference layer and the physical infrastructure are all built and run inside the kingdom, available to builders, companies and government bodies with no control over data leaving the country. He said the model would cost 88 percent less, in price and token consumption, than comparable models available outside Saudi Arabia. Arab News's account of the event did not include a model name, benchmark results or pricing, and the claims could not be independently checked.
"We are the only company in this region that decided that we will not buy software from anybody," Amin said, crediting Saudi product engineers, researchers and developers with building the company's foundations. He said the layers of the stack had taken 15 months of work, and that HUMAIN's priority was to give entrepreneurs, startups and students affordable computing power alongside a state-of-the-art model. "We're one of the few companies that could claim we are completely independent, resilient and sovereign," he said.
HUMAIN+ is meant to sit on top of that stack. Amin told Arab News the idea grew out of his dissatisfaction with existing training methods about a year ago, and that he had set out to create what he called "the Netflix of AI", a platform for both physical and virtual learning.
The Riyadh campus will hold about 1,500 learner places a year and include GPU-backed Builder Labs and spaces for demonstrations and project showcases. The programme is built around role-based learning, sector-specific labs, hands-on product development and competency-based assessment, aimed at helping organisations move from experiments to deployed AI. Participants will work through identifying problems, designing use cases, building and validating prototypes and presenting results using HUMAIN's models and infrastructure.
There will be four learning tracks, for leaders, non-technical professionals, technical staff and students, covering subjects from AI strategy, governance and productivity to product development, agentic AI, security and infrastructure operations. The sector labs will cover government, finance, healthcare, energy and industry, education, tourism, logistics and supply chain, legal and compliance, human resources and sport. The platform will also draw on HUMAIN products including HUMAIN Voice and HUMAIN Create.
HUMAIN built the platform with VUZ, a Riyadh-founded company that holds patents in 360-degree video technology. VUZ founder and chief executive Khaled Zaatarah described the arrangement as a long-term strategic partnership and said the platform was designed to upskill "millions of people from the region, and globally," from students to executives, through immersive, interactive and live content.
The December 15 date gives the first test of Amin's claims: whether HUMAIN publishes the model's weights and performance figures, and on what terms outside developers can reach it.
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- Arab News · HUMAIN CEO unveils December AI stack rollout, HUMAIN+ launch plans for 2027
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