GTC Europe 2025: ASAS AI & Doubleword Announce Strategic Partnership to Deliver Sovereign, Enterprise-Grade AI Solutions in Saudi Arabia and the Middle East

LONDON, England – June 16, 2025

ASAS AI and Doubleword have entered a partnership to deliver a sovereign AI compute stack tailored for enterprises in Saudi Arabia and the broader Middle East. The collaboration combines Doubleword’s self-hosted AI inference platform with ASAS AI’s regional expertise to provide secure, scalable, enterprise-ready deployment of modern AI models in private environments.

This partnership supports Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 ambition to become a global AI leader and complements large-scale investments in NVIDIA-powered infrastructure, including initiatives by the Saudi Public Investment Fund’s AI entity, HUMAIN. It also aligns with a growing regional focus on data sovereignty, localization, and independent AI capability development.

Organizations across the Middle East increasingly face a tradeoff: use external AI APIs and risk non-compliance with data localization laws, or invest heavily in building internal inference infrastructure. This partnership eliminates that compromise.

Powered by NVIDIA’s accelerated computing stack, the joint solution enables:

• Sovereign AI & Complete Data Control: Organizations can deploy AI models within their private environments, maintaining full control over sensitive data and ensuring compliance with local regulations, including Saudi Arabia's data localization requirements.
• Streamlined Deployment of Advanced Models: The solution offers one-click model deployments with comprehensive security and auditability for IT departments, while providing developers with OpenAI-compatible APIs and access to leading models without compliance concerns.
• Enterprise-Scale Performance: The platform delivers optimized performance at scale without requiring extensive custom development, featuring intelligent autoscaling, load balancing, and efficient GPU resource allocation.
• Reduced Implementation Complexity: By providing a fully integrated inference stack from engine to monitoring, the solution significantly reduces the complexity and time required for AI implementation, as demonstrated in recent enterprise deployments.‍
• End-to-end Sovereign Compute Ecosystem: The partnership delivers an end-to-end solution from NVIDIA hardware through Doubleword's inference management to ASAS AI's regional expertise, including robust API security, multi-environment management, and advanced AI application capabilities.

"Saudi Arabia and the Middle East are demonstrating remarkable ambition in AI development, supported by significant GPU infrastructure investments," said an ASAS AI representative. 

"Our partnership with Doubleword provides the essential software layer that enables enterprises to utilize this computing power securely, sovereignly, and efficiently, moving beyond infrastructure to create real AI-driven value."

Doubleword’s CEO, Meryem Arik commented, "Organizations worldwide, particularly in rapidly advancing regions like the Middle East, need to implement AI without compromising security, control, or performance. Our platform addresses the fundamental challenges of self-hosting AI inference in an enterprise-ready manner. In collaboration with regional partners and building on NVIDIA's technology, we look forward to enabling Saudi and Middle Eastern organizations to confidently deploy advanced AI models while maintaining complete data sovereignty."

This collaboration is expected to create new opportunities in key regional sectors including energy, finance, healthcare, and smart city development by providing secure, manageable, high-performance AI inference capabilities. 

It also represents growing collaboration between European AI platform expertise and the dynamic technology landscape of the Middle East.

For more information about Doubleword's Self-Hosted Inference Platform and their collaboration with NVIDIA AI, click here.

About Doubleword

Doubleword is a self-hosted inference platform purpose-built for enterprises. Committed to making self-hosting AI as easy as using 3rd party APIs, Doubleword is on a mission to help enterprises own & control their AI. Doubleworld was founded by AI researchers and has received backing from top investors and industry leaders, including Dawn Capital, Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue, and Datadog CEO Olivier Pomel.

About ASAS AI

ASAS AI is a sovereign AI solutions provider, purpose-built for enterprises and governments in Saudi Arabia and the MENA region. Committed to eliminating the compromise between accessing frontier AI and maintaining absolute data sovereignty, ASAS AI is on a mission to empower the region's most critical organizations to deploy and manage their own AI securely and on their own terms. ASAS AI was founded by a team of the region's leading researchers in Arabic and multilingual AI. The company's mission is supported by strategic partnerships with global technology leaders and is directly aligned with the national AI ambitions of Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030.