PIF Managing Director Yasir bin Othman Al-Rumayyan attends the Russian-Saudi Funding Discussion board held on the Ritz-Carlton Moscow Resort.
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund is in talks with American enterprise capital agency Andreessen Horowitz and probably others to create a $40 billion fund to put money into synthetic intelligence, in accordance with reporting by the New York Occasions which was later confirmed by CNBC sources.
The transfer, which two individuals with data of the matter informed CNBC has been below dialogue for months, would see a partnership shaped between Saudi Arabia’s $925 billion Public Funding Fund (PIF) and Andreessen Horowitz, one among Silicon Valley’s largest enterprise capital companies.
The individuals careworn that talks haven’t but been finalized, and declined to be named as a result of restrictions on talking to the press. In addition they stated they weren’t conscious of different potential events to the talks apart from Andreessen Horowitz and the PIF.
Saudi Arabia’s PIF has been on a shopping for spree because it seeks to diversify the dominion’s revenues away from oil, a key pillar of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s Imaginative and prescient 2030 initiative. It has poured billions of {dollars} of funding into stake purchases and joint funds with main worldwide firms like Uber, Financial institution of America, Citi, SoftBank and Blackstone.
Andreessen Horowitz, with $35 billion in property below administration, has backed profitable firms together with Airbnb, Coinbase, Fb and Slack, and has almost 100 AI-related startups in its portfolio.
Co-founder Marc Andreessen wrote in a weblog put up on the agency’s web site in June 2023 that “The specter of not aggressively pursuing world AI dominance … is appreciable.”
