How Saudi Arabia can follow Israel’s AI blueprint
The launch of humans, the artificial intelligence platform supported by the SAUDI Public Investment Fund, put AI at the center of the kingdom’s diversification strategy. With a supercomputer powered by 18,000 Blackwell GPU of NVIDIA, Qualcomm server processors, a collaboration of $ 10 billion with AMD and a $ 10 billion partnership with Google Cloud to build a world IA center in Dammam, the human is zero as one of the most important infrastructure providers in the world.
He has a lot of company in the kingdom. Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Oracle all build huge computer centers and data in the kingdom.
While the country aims to become one of the 15 best players in the World Ecosystem of AI currently dominated by the United States and China, its enormous resources and impressive partners will not be sufficient. Without developing a flourishing national community of scientists of data and researchers in AI, investments in Saudi Arabia are likely to make an outpost of the American economy. The intellectual property and the great income that the infrastructure will generate will not belong to Saudi Arabia, but by American and other societies.
Saudi officials looking for a response to this challenge can find it along the Red Sea coast – in Israel.
Although such Aviv is the last place that Riyadh is looking for lessons these days, the technological performance of Israel deserve to be imitated. And while the kingdom is advancing with plans to train 20,000 AI specialists by 2030, it can accelerate this effort by admiring the experience of Israel.
Israel, despite its small terrestrial mass and its population, has the highest concentration of AI talents in all the countries in the world, according to the Stanford AI 2025 index. It was classified fourth in the world in AI startups from 2013 to 2024. The infrastructure that allows Nvidia to network its chips in an AI supercomputer was developed in Israel A company founded by Eyal Waldman and sold in Nvidia in 2019 for $ 6.9 billion.
Ilya Sutskever, the Israeli-Canadian co-founder of Open IA, began a safe superintendent with Daniel Gross, another Israeli who, in adolescence, spent hours on my office computers. Last year, safe superintendent has raised $ 1 billion to an evaluation of $ 5 billion. In April, he collected an additional $ 2 billion to an assessment of $ 32 billion-and he still has not publicly revealed many things about herself beyond a broad and daring product statement on the need for the first super intelligence in the world.
Israel’s unique ecosystem attracts billions of dollars necessary to build AI technology and produce global startups. It has become a global technological leader not by relying on oil or sovereign wealth, but by cultivating risks, a double -use innovation and a culture of entrepreneurship.
