#Saudi #infrastructure – US artificial intelligence infrastructure specialist Groq will provide 20% to 40% of its on-demand token-as-a-service for AI inference by the year-end from a new inferencing data centre soon to open in Saudi Arabia. In a joint announcement made at the Global AI Summit (GAIN) with Aramco Digital CEO Tareq Amin, Groq founder and CEO Jonathan Ross confirmed that Groq has registered a regional headquarters in Saudi Arabia and will be live with an inferencing data centre service by the end of 2024. Future plans developed with Aramco could see Groq expand its Saudi operations to provide one billion tokens-per-second of compute compacity.

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