February 11, 2012 - AI inference chip startup Groq Local time announced yesterday thatSaudi ArabiaArabia has committed to investing $1.5 billion (note: currently around Rs. 10,962 million) to support Groq's expansion of its AI inference infrastructure in Dammam, Saudi Arabia.
Groq's Dammam data center, built in partnership with a subsidiary of oil giant Saudi Aramco, now contains 19,000 Groq LPUs (Language Processing Units).Access to 4 billion users in 41 countries.
At LEAP 2025 in Saudi Arabia, the Middle East's premier technology event, representatives from Groq and Aramco demonstrated LLM reasoning powered by Dammam Data Center, the officially launched Allam model for bilingual support of English & Arabic, and text-to-speech modeling for both English and Arabic.
Groq also said it is now offering its "market-leading" GroqCloud AI inference cloud service to users globally through its Dammam data center in Saudi Arabia.