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Echelon and Applied Intuition partner to scale physical AI across Saudi Arabia. September 21, 2026 * Echelon and Applied Intuition have formed a business development partnership in Saudi Arabia, with the goal of deploying physical AI at national scale in industries including robotaxis, ports, mining, manufacturing, agriculture, construction, and trucking. * Echelon will work alongside Applied Intuition to serve customers across the Kingdom's priority industries and is investing in Saudi engineering talent. * As part of its long-term commitment to the Kingdom, Applied Intuition has established a regional office in Riyadh and is also hiring top engineering talent locally. RIYADH and SUNNYVALE, Calif. - Echelon, the Riyadh-based technology company driving AI transformation across the Middle East, and Applied Intuition, Inc., the leading physical AI company, today announced a business development partnership to bring Applied Intuition's physical AI platform to Saudi Arabia. Echelon partners with leading global technology companies to bring frontier technology to the Kingdom and drive AI transformation across the Middle East. The company provides local development, customizations and ecosystem integration, helping ensure the Kingdom both builds and deploys its own tech while partnering with top industry leaders worldwide. Echelon also embeds forward deployed engineers with its partners and customers, building the local engineering capability to run AI systems in production. "Saudi Arabia has an opportunity not simply to adopt physical AI, but to help define how it is deployed at national scale," said Khalid Bin Bader Al Saud, Founder and Managing Director of Echelon. "Ever since I met with the team at Applied Intuition, I have been excited about what their physical AI stack can unlock here. Applied Intuition brings one of the world's most advanced platforms, and we will develop Saudi talent and deploy it across the industries that matter most to Saudi Arabia." Applied Intuition builds the software and digital infrastructure that make moving machines intelligent and autonomous across industries such as mining, construction and automotive, including in cars, robotaxis and trucks. Applied Intuition's platform, deployed globally, will form the technical foundation and positions Saudi Arabia to build intelligent infrastructure into its logistics network from the ground up. "Saudi Arabia is making one of the world's biggest investments in physical AI," said Qasar Younis, co-founder and CEO of Applied Intuition. "Deploying at national scale takes partners who know how to build on the ground. Echelon is critical in helping to shape the future of physical AI in the Kingdom." As part of its long-term commitment to Saudi Arabia, Applied Intuition has established a regional office in Riyadh and is hiring locally. Applied Intuition and Echelon will also work towards positioning the country as a global hub for research into autonomous driving for the logistics industry. About Echelon Founded in Saudi Arabia, Echelon is a global AI operator driving transformation across the Kingdom; taking the world's most advanced AI capabilities and translating them into real-world impact. Through a distinctive operating model that combines local development, ecosystem integration, and strategic market activation, Echelon enables organizations and nations to adopt, scale, and operationalize AI in ways that strengthen performance, accelerate innovation, and enhance national competitiveness. Learn more at echelon.inc or [email protected]. About Applied Intuition Applied Intuition is building the technology to make a billion machines intelligent. Founded in 2017, the Silicon Valley company powers physical AI in the automotive, defense, trucking, construction, mining and agriculture industries. Applied Intuition is based in Sunnyvale, California, with nearly two dozen offices around the world, including London, Munich, Tokyo, Seoul and the Washington, D.C., metro area. Learn more at applied.co, or email [email protected].

HUMAIN and Applied Intuition partner for Saudi autonomous trucking. * September 1, 2026 Applied Intuition Inc., one of the leading physical AI companies, and HUMAIN, a PIF company delivering full-stack artificial intelligence capabilities globally, recently announced a strategic collaboration to establish a foundational framework for autonomy at national scale, beginning with driverless trucks and expanding into robotaxis, ports, mining, and other industries. The collaboration brings together HUMAIN's sovereign AI infrastructure in Saudi Arabia with Applied Intuition's end-to-end physical AI stack for all industries, provided through a long-term commercial partnership. The collaboration will build the largest autonomous trucking network in the world, rolling out thousands of autonomous trucks across key Saudi logistics corridors by 2030. This is the first major initiative under HUMAIN's physical AI strategy, which will extend AI beyond the data center and into the physical systems that deliver real-world impact. The initial phase will focus on launching autonomous trucking, with future phases introducing additional physical AI applications. Autonomous trucking is a natural starting point to build the next generation of critical infrastructure: It's a large-scale, tangible application where AI can have a direct impact on productivity, logistics, and economic growth. Applied Intuition, HUMAIN's physical AI partner, has established an office in Riyadh. "Autonomous trucking will change the economics of moving goods and people," said Tareq Amin, CEO of HUMAIN. "Our goal with Applied Intuition is to make this region the first to deploy autonomous trucking at scale. Thousands of autonomous trucks operating around the clock can transform the speed, cost, and capacity of our logistics network, with a multiplier effect across economies. We have an opportunity to set a global benchmark for autonomous freight." "Physical AI is the next frontier of intelligent infrastructure, and Saudi Arabia has the ambition to deploy it at unprecedented scale," said Qasar Younis, co-founder and CEO of Applied Intuition. "Our vision with Applied Intuition is to bring intelligence to a billion machines around the world, and this is exactly the kind of national-scale deployment we built our platform to enable. We're proud to partner with HUMAIN to help create the future of physical AI in the country." The collaboration leverages Applied Intuition's end-to-end physical AI stack, including a multi-domain autonomy model that scales across industries, such as trucking, mining, agriculture, construction, and more. Applied Intuition's Self-Driving System (SDS), together with its Vehicle OS and supporting vehicle intelligence technologies, will be the centerpiece of the collaboration with HUMAIN. SDS is already on roads in the U.S., Europe, and Japan. The local geography, major freight corridors, and strong continued investment in logistics infrastructure create an opportunity to deploy autonomous trucking at significant scale. Autonomous trucks can operate efficiently for longer periods than driver-operated fleets, and have the potential to increase freight capacity and fleet utilization while improving road safety and addressing workforce constraints in commercial trucking. Applied Intuition is building a local team with technical capabilities as part of a long-term commitment to Saudi Arabia. Its Riyadh office will create the high-value jobs required to launch, operate, and scale autonomous fleets. The aim of the partnership is to make the Kingdom a global center for autonomous logistics, with potential for future expansion across the region.

LEAP 5 opens with more than $15 billion in technology investments and strategic partnerships. RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA, September 1, 2026 / EINPresswire.com / - Marking the start of its fifth edition, LEAP opened today with more than $15 billion in technology investments and strategic commitments, reinforcing the event's position as a global launchpad for innovation and reflecting the rapid growth of Saudi Arabia's technology sector since the inaugural edition in 2022. Opening LEAP 5, H.E. Eng. Abdullah Alswaha, Minister of Communications and Information Technology, highlighted the rapid expansion of Saudi Arabia's technology sector. Since LEAP's launch, the Kingdom's digital economy has grown by 69 per cent, from $118 billion to $199 billion, while women now represent 36 per cent of the technology workforce. The opening day featured a series of major announcements across AI infrastructure, cloud computing and autonomous technologies. Among the headline announcements, HUMAIN unveiled HUMAIN M3, a new open-weights Arabic language model trained on more than one trillion Arabic tokens, alongside HUMAIN Voice, a conversational AI platform designed for multiple Arabic dialects including Saudi, Maghrebi, Egyptian and Levantine Arabic. Tareq Amin, Chief Executive Officer of HUMAIN, said: "No company delivers something at this scale on its own. What you are seeing is a country rallied around a mission, with partners across the Kingdom building alongside us. The leadership understood early that AI is a foundational technology rather than an additive one, and everything we are building serves that vision." HUMAIN also announced a strategic partnership with Applied Intuition to deploy physical AI technologies across Saudi Arabia, beginning with autonomous trucking. The collaboration aims to establish the world's largest autonomous trucking network, with thousands of autonomous vehicles expected to operate across key Saudi logistics corridors by 2030. Additional announcements included a $5 billion joint investment between HUMAIN and AWS in the AWS HUMAIN AI Zone, supporting the development of advanced AI infrastructure and cloud capabilities in the Kingdom. Adobe also highlighted its contribution to Saudi Arabia's creative economy, which has reached $4 billion over the past 12 months through investment in digital creativity and innovation. Meanwhile, xAI announced one of its most significant international expansions to date, with a major Saudi-based data centre deployment beginning with 50MW of capacity and scaling to 500MW, while AMD and HUMAIN confirmed the deployment of AMD's largest inference cluster outside the United States. The scale of investment and the presence of global technology leaders at LEAP reflects Saudi Arabia's growing position as a global centre for technology investment, infrastructure and innovation. Mike Champion, Co-founder of LEAP and CEO of Tahaluf, said: "Since 2022, LEAP has helped establish Saudi Arabia as one of the world's most dynamic technology markets, bringing together investors, innovators and industry leaders to create tangible outcomes. As we enter fifth year, the scale of today's announcements reflects both the maturity of the event and the Kingdom's growing influence in shaping the future of the global technology sector." Running until 3 September, LEAP 2026 continues this week with an extensive programme spanning artificial intelligence, digital infrastructure, investment, entrepreneurship and emerging technologies. Catch all the announcements, keynote sessions and highlights from the LEAP Main Stage on Day One via the official livestream: https://youtube.com/live/-Hz94KAkEDc?feature=share About LEAP: Saudi Arabia's desire to shoot for something beyond the realms of the possible presents the ultimate backdrop for LEAP. LEAP showcases the Kingdom's technology ambition on a global stage as it continues to grow as a hub connecting three continents. The figures speak for themselves as LEAP 2025 had an attendance of over 200,000, making it the most attended tech event in the world. LEAP features the inspiring tech of tomorrow across all major sectors including health, finance, energy, education, digital entertainment, transport, smart cities and more. The event is also led by a speaker faculty of globally celebrated technology innovators, focusing on the most innovative tech case studies from around the world. LEAP is not like any other tech event, from the ground up the community, stakeholders and project team are challenged every day to do something wildly creative and bold, something that reflects the seismic advances in tech adoption being seen in Saudi Arabia. About Tahaluf: Headquartered in Riyadh, Tahaluf brings together strategically important commercial communities from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the wider Gulf region, and from around the world to a portfolio of world-class exhibitions and digital platforms. Tahaluf is a joint venture partnership between Informa PLC, the world's largest trade show organiser, the Saudi Federation for Cybersecurity, Programming and Drones (SAFCSP), and Events Investment Fund (EIF). Sela, the Saudi-owned event production company renowned for its creation of spectacular event experiences, intends to join the joint venture in the near future. Tahaluf is responsible for the award-winning tech events LEAP, DeepFest and LEAP East, as well as Money 20/20 Middle East, the Global Health Exhibition, Cityscape Global, Black Hat MEA and CPHI Middle East. Lama Alqasem Tahaluf [email protected] Legal Disclaimer: EIN Presswire provides this news content "as is" without warranty of any kind. US National Times do not accept any responsibility or liability for the accuracy, content, images, videos, licenses, completeness, legality, or reliability of the information contained in this article. If you have any complaints or copyright issues related to this article, kindly contact the author above.