LONDON: Saudi Arabia’s Humane has announced a partnership with US artificial intelligence company Turing to build what the companies describe as the first marketplace for enterprise-grade AI agents, in a deal announced at the FII Priority Summit in Miami on Wednesday.
The marketplace, hosted on Humain’s platform Humain One, is designed to help companies “discover, deploy, and scale” AI agents (software systems that can autonomously perform tasks) across business functions such as human resources, finance, legal, operations, and procurement.
“The SaaS era has transformed productivity, but the next chapter is agentic, meaning that software not only supports but also executes workflows,” said Tareq Amin, CEO of Humain. “Humain One is our vision for an enterprise operating system for the AI era.”
Humain, backed by the Public Investment Fund, will contribute its AI infrastructure and model orchestration capabilities to the venture, while Turing, a Palo Alto-based company specializing in AI model development and deployment, will provide expertise in model evaluation, fine-tuning, and inference systems.
The companies said the platform will enable third-party developers to publish and sell AI agents through a shared marketplace, effectively creating a new commercial layer in the emerging AI agent economy.
Turing will be Humain One’s first US-based customer, which both companies have flagged as important, positioning Saudi Arabia not only as a consumer of AI technology but also as an exporter of AI technology.
Jonathan Siddharth, CEO and co-founder of Turing, said the market represents a concrete step toward making advanced AI “economically transformative,” adding that the partnership will help accelerate the deployment of AI in Saudi Arabia and internationally.
The announcement is the latest sign of Saudi Arabia’s accelerated efforts to establish itself as a global hub for artificial intelligence, with PIF pouring significant capital into AI infrastructure and platforms as part of the Kingdom’s Vision 2030 diversification drive.
