{"id":28441,"date":"2025-02-11T11:28:02","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T03:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/?p=28441"},"modified":"2025-02-11T11:28:02","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T03:28:02","slug":"%e6%b2%99%e7%89%b9%e5%b0%86%e5%90%91-ai-%e8%8a%af%e7%89%87%e5%88%9b%e4%bc%81-groq-%e6%8a%95%e8%b5%84-15-%e4%ba%bf%e7%be%8e%e5%85%83%ef%bc%8c%e6%94%af%e6%8c%81%e5%90%8e%e8%80%85%e5%9c%a8%e6%b2%99-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/28441.html","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia to invest $1.5 billion in AI chip startup Groq to support the latter's AI infrastructure expansion in Saudi Arabia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>February 11, 2012 - AI inference chip startup <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/groq\" title=\"[Sees articles with [Groq] label]\" target=\"_blank\" >Groq<\/a> Local time announced yesterday that<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/%e6%b2%99%e7%89%b9\" title=\"[Sees articles with [Saudi] labels]\" target=\"_blank\" >Saudi Arabia<\/a>Arabia 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.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-28442\" title=\"0ac3bacej00sri1m200lvd000v900hkp\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/0ac3bacej00sri1m200lvd000v900hkp.jpg\" alt=\"0ac3bacej00sri1m200lvd000v900hkp\" width=\"1125\" height=\"632\" \/><\/p>\n<p>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).<strong>Access to 4 billion users in 41 countries<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>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 &amp; Arabic, and text-to-speech modeling for both English and Arabic.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 11 February, according to information received, AI Drill Starter Groq announced yesterday that Saudi Arabia had pledged to invest $1.5 billion (note: currently about 109.62 billion yuan yuan) to support Groq ' s expansion of the AI reasoning infrastructure in Saudi Dammam. The Darman data centre in Groq, which was built by the enterprise in cooperation with the oil giant Saudi-American subsidiary, now contains 19,000 Groq LPUs (language processing units), which can serve 4 billion users in 41 countries. And on the site of the Middle East Science and Technology Festival in Saudi Arabia, LEAP 2025, representatives of Groq and Am\u00e9rica demonstrated the LLM reasoning supported by the Dammam Data Centre<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[3159,2913],"collection":[],"class_list":["post-28441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-groq","tag-2913"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28441","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=28441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28441"},{"taxonomy":"collection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection?post=28441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}