OmniOps and HPE sign sovereign AI MoU at LEAP

OmniOps, Saudi Arabia's sovereign AI infrastructure technology company, signed a memorandum of understanding with HPE at LEAP. The agreement is set up around sovereign AI solutions for government and enterprise customers, with an eye on accelerating AI adoption and reinforcing digital sovereignty and local technology capabilities in the Kingdom. It falls under HPE's Saudi Made, Developed & Deployed initiative, or SMDD.

The two companies plan to combine HPE's Saudi Made infrastructure with OmniOps' locally developed AI platforms. OmniOps brings in-country deployment capabilities to the deal. The intended stack has three layers: servers, infrastructure, and AI management. Those layers are built in Saudi Arabia and operate under Saudi jurisdiction. In practice, that means locally produced compute is paired with locally operated AI infrastructure and software, so customers get control from the physical machine up through deployment and enterprise AI management. The companies describe the goal as sovereign AI solutions that are validated, deployed, and supported inside the country. They also see the MoU as a way to move customers from AI experiments into production, and as a channel to commercialize Saudi technology innovation.

Mohammed Altassan, founding CEO of OmniOps, said full sovereignty across a technology stack depends on careful decisions at every level. Customers in government, aviation, and financial services are asking for more control and transparency, he said.

Running OmniOps software on Saudi-produced servers addresses where data sits, who built the platform, and where the hardware comes from.

Altassan added that the National Strategy for Data and AI was created with a genuinely sovereign stack in mind. Mohammad Alrehaili, vice president and managing director for the Middle East at HPE, said the collaboration brings SMDD to life. Saudi organizations will get a strong foundation for deploying sovereign AI at scale, he noted. Both companies, he said, will accelerate AI adoption and support the growth of the Kingdom's technology ecosystem.

OmniOps positions Bunyan as the anchor of its offering. Bunyan is an AI inference platform rather than a single model or API. It is designed for deployment and management across cloud, on-premises, and air-gapped environments. Customers can use leading large language models hosted in Saudi Arabia, and the platform includes the infrastructure and building blocks for securely adopting and deploying generative AI. Its hardware-agnostic architecture is intended to integrate locally produced compute while preserving customer choice across different AI infrastructure providers.

The agreement points to a broader concern about infrastructure ownership. Data residency and local model deployment have become central to sovereign AI strategies. Organizations are now examining the layers beneath their AI workloads and asking where those workloads run and who manages the stack beneath them. By putting OmniOps' software on Saudi-produced servers, HPE and OmniOps are answering those questions inside one national boundary. They are treating sovereignty as a property of the whole stack rather than a feature of a single product.