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Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF) and Aramco announced on November 1 that their deal has closed: Aramco, through a wholly owned subsidiary, takes a 49% stake in Saudi AI company HUMAIN, while PIF keeps 51% control. Besides transferring its own AI, compute and digital assets, Aramco will contribute about SAR 9.9 billion (roughly $2.6 billion) in cash to HUMAIN in 2026. HUMAIN plans to deploy 3 GW of AI data center capacity by 2030 and keeps developing ALLaM, its multimodal Arabic large language model.

Recursive self-improvement (RSI), using models to speed up the development of the next models, became one of the most-used terms in AI circles on X this past week after several big-tech CEOs talked about it in public. Google CEO Sundar Pichai framed it differently on two podcasts. On Alex Kantrowitz's Big Technology Podcast he said "We are pretty far from the end state of RSI." On Alex Heath's Sources podcast he said researchers are co-working with models "in a deep way" and "I would expect the next 12 months to see continued acceleration because of RSI." The widely shared 12-month line comes from the Sources episode, not Big Technology. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told Stanford GSB that besides AI recursive self-improvement there is another loop, robots that build robots and data centers that build data centers, that gets "much less talk". Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, replying to a critic on X, wrote about the point where AI-driven acceleration gets fast enough that safety struggles to keep up: "We are nearing that point." This is an X discussion of public remarks by CEOs, not an announcement of any new research program.

DeepSeek disclosed large-scale deployments of Huawei Ascend clusters across its new AI data centers. Paired with its 552B-parameter asymmetric MoE model DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash, the architecture achieved record inference throughput and memory efficiency on domestic silicon.

Together AI (@togethercompute) announces Equinix Inference Exchange with Equinix and NVIDIA: its open-model platform is live across Equinix’s global data centers, productizing both which model enterprises run and where it runs — arguing model choice and performance are not a trade-off.

Together AI said it signed one of the largest AI infrastructure deals for open source: a 250MW data center with HUMAIN in Saudi Arabia, carrying more than $5 billion in annualized revenue. The company framed the pact as open-source compute catching up with closed models that have long been bankrolled by hyperscalers, and argued power—not chips alone—is the binding constraint. For teams that fine-tune and serve open weights, the deal points to a step-change in dedicated capacity without each lab raising its own multi-billion-dollar balance sheet.