Together AI, which serves open models, announces a deal to use compute from Humain in Saudi Arabia, where it can bypass US backlash over data centers
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Together AI tapping Humain’s Saudi compute to sidestep US data center backlash shows AI infra is fragmenting along geopolitical and regulatory lines. If you depend on open models at scale, you now need a jurisdiction strategy—where your inference runs will matter as much as which model you pick.
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