Riyadh: TECHz Magazine – News Desk
Magna AI and VAST Data have announced a strategic collaboration to advance sovereign AI infrastructure and AI factories across Saudi Arabia. The partnership brings together Magna AI’s full-stack sovereign AI transformation capabilities with VAST Data’s high-performance AI data platform to support the Kingdom’s rapidly expanding digital economy.
The collaboration integrates complementary capabilities to enable large-scale model training, fine-tuning, and inference workloads for Saudi enterprises and government entities. VAST Data will provide its AI Operating System, which consolidates structured and unstructured data into a unified environment to eliminate data silos and ensure high-speed, low-latency access for continuous training. Meanwhile, Magna AI – a joint venture established by Trend Micro and Wistron Digital Technology Holding Company (WDH), powered by NVIDIA – will drive the AI factory architecture, security, and governance frameworks. This combined approach ensures that all infrastructure aligns strictly with Saudi data-residency and cybersecurity requirements.
Headquartered in Riyadh’s Alraidah Digital City, Magna AI is positioning this partnership to align directly with Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 digital investment objectives and government data-sovereignty mandates. The local AI data center market is experiencing massive growth, fueled by the demand for locally hosted AI workloads that allow regional organizations to maintain total control over their proprietary data.
Led by CEO Dr. Moataz BinAli, Magna AI continues to build upon a series of strategic local alliances. Following recent agreements with Saudi Xerox to support infrastructure compliance and Emaar Executive Company for the engineering and construction of sovereign AI data centers, the integration of VAST Data’s robust computing and data management platform establishes a comprehensive, secure, and intelligent foundation for AI deployment across the Middle East.
