{"id":28386,"date":"2025-02-10T12:11:39","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T04:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/?p=28386"},"modified":"2025-02-10T12:11:39","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T04:11:39","slug":"deepseek-%e8%bf%9b%e5%86%9b%e4%b8%ad%e4%b8%9c%ef%bc%8c%e4%b8%8e%e7%9f%b3%e6%b2%b9%e5%b7%a8%e5%a4%b4%e6%b2%99%e7%89%b9%e9%98%bf%e7%be%8e%e8%81%94%e6%89%8b%e8%bf%90%e8%90%a5%e6%95%b0%e6%8d%ae%e4%b8%ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/28386.html","title":{"rendered":"DeepSeek Enters Middle East, Joins Forces with Oil Giant Saudi Aramco to Operate Data Centers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 10 - Saudi Arabia unveiled its LEAP technology conference in Riyadh on Feb. 9, German media outlet bne IntelliNews reported today.<strong>Technology investments and strategic partnerships valued at US$14.9 billion (currently approximately RMB108,896 million)<\/strong>, marking the expansion of the country's AI and digital infrastructure strategy.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-28387\" title=\"fdf24087j00srg8ye00u2d000tp00r3p\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/fdf24087j00srg8ye00u2d000tp00r3p.jpg\" alt=\"fdf24087j00srg8ye00u2d000tp00r3p\" width=\"1069\" height=\"975\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Saudi Ministry of Communications and Information Technology has announced that it will spend $10.9 billion (currently about Rs. 79,662 million) on AI infrastructure and startup funding, while Groq (note: no relation to X's Grok AI) will invest $1.5 billion (currently about Rs. 10,963 million) to build the world's largest AI-focused data center in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The report mentioned,<strong>Chinese Artificial Intelligence Company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/deepseek\" title=\"[View articles tagged with [DeepSeek]]\" target=\"_blank\" >DeepSeek<\/a> Commenced operations at Aramco's digital data center in Dammam, Saudi Arabia<\/strong>This is another important development in the country's expanding AI infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>Data is stored locally once it is used,\" said Tariq Amin, former CEO of Aramco's digital division, in a conference presentation in Riyadh.<strong>It will never be transferred to another place.<\/strong>. We foresee the world's need for AI model inference and manipulation, especially with DeepSeek.\"<\/p>\n<p>The report suggests that DeepSeek's expansion in Saudi Arabia through Saudi Aramco's digital facilities reflects the country's growing role as a regional AI hub.<\/p>\n<p>also,<strong>Google is also launching a global cluster in Saudi Arabia<\/strong>to meet the region's and international demand for AI.<\/p>\n<p>Lenovo also reached an agreement with Alat Enet to jointly hold a groundbreaking ceremony in Riyadh on February 9 for a new manufacturing site that is expected to produce millions of \"Made in Saudi Arabia\" laptops, desktops and servers annually.<strong>Lenovo Group will also set up a Riyadh<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/%e4%b8%ad%e4%b8%9c\" title=\"_Other Organiser\" target=\"_blank\" >middle East<\/a>and Regional Headquarters for Africa<\/strong>, establishing a new flagship retail store.<\/p>\n<p>If you look at Saudi Arabia in isolation and place it in the European region,\" said Abdullah Al-Swaha, Saudi Minister of Communications and Information Technology.<strong>It's going to be the fifth largest tech center in Europe.<\/strong>.\" He also noted that the digital economy in the European region grew by 731 TP3T to $260 billion (currently about R1.9 trillion), with Saudi Arabia accounting for 151 TP3T of this market.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to news from 10 February, a German mediabne IntelliNews today reported that Saudi Arabia had announced at the Riyadh LEAP Technical Assembly on 9 February, a strategic partnership in science and technology valued at $14.9 billion (currently approximately RMB 108,896 million), marking the expansion of its AI and digital infrastructure strategy. The Saudi Ministry of Communications and Information Technology announced that $10.9 billion (currently about $79,662 billion) would be spent on AI infrastructure and start-up business, while Groq (note: not related to X ' s Grok AI) would invest $1.5 billion (currently about 109.63 billion yuan) to build the largest in the world in Saudi Arabia<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[3606,1618],"collection":[],"class_list":["post-28386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-deepseek","tag-1618"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28386"},{"taxonomy":"collection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection?post=28386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}