OmniOps announced at LEAP the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with HPE to develop sovereign AI solutions that bring together HPE’s ‘Saudi Made’ infrastructure and OmniOps’ Saudi-developed AI platforms and in-country deployment capabilities. Aligned with HPE’s Saudi Made, Developed & Deployed (SMDD) initiative, the collaboration aims to help government and enterprise organisations accelerate AI adoption while strengthening digital sovereignty and local technology capabilities.
Combined with OmniOps’ deployment infrastructure and enterprise AI management capabilities, this collaboration creates an end-to-end stack in which the servers, infrastructure and AI management layers are built in Saudi Arabia and operating within its jurisdiction.
While data residency and local model deployment have become central to sovereign AI strategies, organisations are increasingly looking further down the technology stack at the infrastructure their workloads run on. By integrating locally produced compute with locally operated AI infrastructure and software, OmniOps is extending that control from hardware through deployment and enterprise AI management.
Through the collaboration, HPE and OmniOps plan to combine locally produced infrastructure with Saudi-developed AI platforms and in-country deployment expertise to help organisations move from AI experimentation to production. Reflecting the vision of the SMDD initiative, the companies aim to develop sovereign AI solutions that can be validated, deployed and supported within the Kingdom, while creating new opportunities to commercialise Saudi technology innovation.
“Achieving sovereignty across an entity’s tech stack means careful consideration at every level,” Mohammed Altassan, Founding CEO of OmniOps, commented: “Today, our customers across government, aviation and financial services require more control and transparency. Running our own software on servers produced here in the Kingdom means we can answer all three of their immediate needs: where their data sits, who built the platform running on top of it and where the hardware underneath it comes from. That is what a genuinely sovereign stack looks like, and it is what the National Strategy for Data and AI was built to enable.”
Mohammad Alrehaili, VP & Managing Director for the Middle East at HPE, said: “This collaboration with OmniOps brings the vision of Saudi Made, Developed & Deployed to life and will give organisations in Saudi Arabia a strong foundation for deploying sovereign AI at scale. Together we will help accelerate AI adoption and support the continued growth of the Kingdom’s technology ecosystem.”
OmniOps’ offering is anchored by Bunyan, its AI inference platform, which enables organisations to deploy and manage AI workloads across cloud, on-premises and air-gapped environments according to their security, regulatory and operational requirements. Bunyan gives organisations access to leading LLMs hosted in the Kingdom, alongside the infrastructure and building blocks needed to securely adopt and deploy GenAI across their organisations. It’s hardware-agnostic architecture also allows OmniOps to integrate locally produced compute while preserving customer choice across different AI infrastructure providers.
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