Saudi Arabia is optimistic about gaining access to U.S. chipmaker Nvidia's high-performance chips, which would enable it to develop and operate the most advanced artificial intelligence models.
It's a significant expectation given that the United States' strict export controls have thus far prevented the chips' export to the kingdom.
Habib made the comments on the sidelines of GAIN, Saudi Arabia's international AI summit, which took place in Riyadh this week.
It "will mean a lot" for Saudi Arabia to have access to the chips, Habib said — in this case, the Nvidia H200s, the firm's most powerful chips, which are used in OpenAI's GPT-4o.
We worked hard in the past three years in building capacity, in human capacity, we also build data capacity as well.
Persons:
Tariq Habib, Habib, CNBC's Dan Murphy, —, it's
Organizations:
CNBC, Saudi, AI Authority, Nvidia
Locations:
Saudi Arabia, United States, Riyadh, Saudi, U.S