Saudi AI Chief Vows to Avoid Huawei Tech in Bid for US Chips (2)

Tareq Amin, the head of Saudi Arabia’s artificial intelligence startup Humain, said he is confident the US will clear the sale of advanced chips to the kingdom after his firm provided detailed guarantees to American officials.

One of those guarantees, according to Amin: The company will not purchase equipment from China’s Huawei Technologies Co.

“In our case, I will never do that,” Humain’s chief executive officer said in an interview at the Future Investment Initiative in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia’s annual investment showpiece. The US government has for years imposed a series of restrictions on China’s tech industry, ...