Donald Trump’s trip to the Middle East was presented as an opportunity to achieve – and this was up to this expectation.
The first major tour abroad of the president abroad of his second term began with the flow of billions of dollars because the American companies aligned themselves to announce agreements with the nations of the Middle East.
A wave of announcements came out of the Saudi investment forum which was held Tuesday in Riyadh, where the agreement after the agreement emerged.
In January, Trump announced that Saudi Arabia had undertaken to invest $ 600 billion in the United States over the next four years, a sign that the two countries were trying to build closer ties.
Mohammed Bin Salman, de facto leader in Saudi Arabia and Crown Prince, has made his country priority to diversify its oil economy as part of its great economic plan, Vision 2030.
This is why he was courting business leaders in the United States, with Elon Musk, the boss of Openai Sam Altman and Larry Fink from Blackrock, all the participants in the investment forum on Tuesday.
Here is an overview of some of the main offers that have been announced during Trump visiting so far.
A weapon agreement worth 142 billion dollars
Trump marked the first day of his Middle East tour with an arms contract of $ 142 billion. Win McNamee / Getty images
The United States and Saudi Arabia have concluded an weapon agreement worth $ 142 billion on the first day of Trump’s trip to the Middle East. The White House described it as the “biggest story to defense in history”.
The agreement would see the United States offering Saudi Arabia “advanced technology war equipment of more than a dozen American defense companies”, according to the White House.
Services will offer Defense Coverage for Saudi Arabia, which includes Air Force’s progress and spatial capacities, air defense and anti -missile, maritime security and coastal security, border security and information and communication systems improvements, added Trump’s administration.
NVIDIA brings tokens to Saudi Arabia
The CEO of Nvidia, Jensen Huang, brings token in the Middle East. Win McNamee / Getty images
The great plans of Saudi Arabia to become a regional leader in AI depend on its access to very advanced fleas to train and manage leading models. This is where Nvidia comes into play.
The American flea manufacturer should bring at least 18,000 of its Blackwell GPUs to Saudi Arabia as part of an initial deployment phase involving humans, a new AI subsidiary established by the Sovereign Heritage Fund for Saudi Arabia.
The objective of the human is to build so -called AI factories to make their ambitions, with plans to use “several hundred thousands of the most advanced GPUs in Nvidia” over the next five years.
A superior NVIDIA rival is also to build Saudi ties
AMD of Lisa Su has concluded a partnership of $ 10 billion with human. Brendan Smialowski / AFP via Getty Images
AMD, one of the best rivals in Nvidia, has not abandoned the opportunity to build close ties with Saudi Arabia.
On Tuesday, the company announced that it would work with humans to invest up to $ 10 billion in AI calculation over the next five years.
According to the company, the infrastructure built will imply “a network of IA computer centers based on AMD extending from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in the United States”.
Amazon builds an “IA zone”
Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon. Reuters / Brendan McDermid
Amazon Web Services is also in action, with a plan of more than $ 5 billion to build what he calls an “AI zone” in Saudi Arabia.
According to the company, the “Première des Genre” area will provide a space in which a set of largely complex infrastructure, including servers loaded with fleas aimed at providing “a faster training and inference of AI”.
It followed an announcement last year in which AWS said it would bring data centers to the country in 2026 and invest more than $ 5.3 billion.
Google looks at the Arabia Arabia startups
Google supports a new $ 100 million AI fund in Saudi Arabia. Tayfun Coskun / Anadolu via Getty Images
Bets on start-up talents are high priority for the Saudi venture capital company STV. It is about to get a helping hand in this Google process, which supports the $ 100 million investment fund from STV.
The fund will invest in companies in the Middle East and North Africa, or MENA.
“Our support from the STV IA fund represents a strong commitment to supporting the ECC ecosystem in MENA, based on our wider efforts to give access to AI for everyone,” Google said in a blog article on Tuesday.
The $ 20 billion database agreement in supermicro
SuperMicro has entered into an agreement of $ 20 billion with a Saudi data company. Illustration of Thomas Fuller / Sopa Images / Lightrocket via Getty Images
The technological company based in California, Supermicro, may not have the same weight as the large technological companies that surround it in Silicon Valley, but society shows that it can play a strategic role in the profound implementation of links with Saudi Arabia.
This week, the company, which specializes in the development of servers, has signed a multi -year partnership worth $ 20 billion with Datavolt, a Saudi data center company founded in 2023.
The agreement implies operations and manufacturing which take place in Saudi Arabia and the United States.
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