--- title: Yasir Al-Rumayyan: The 100 Most Influential People in AI 2024 description: Find out why Yasir Al-Rumayyan made TIME’s list of the most influential people in artificial intelligence. canonical: https://time.com/collections/time100-ai-2024/7012835/yasir-al-rumayyan-2/ article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2024-09-05T11:15:36.000Z article:modified_time: 2024-09-09T20:50:55.000Z article:section: Business og:title: TIME100 AI 2024: Yasir Al-Rumayyan og:description: Find out why Yasir Al-Rumayyan made TIME’s list of the most influential people in artificial intelligence og:url: https://time.com/collections/time100-ai-2024/7012835/yasir-al-rumayyan-2/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2340897159a24355/698a5a94b21a9c2c7d50a6be/TIME100-AI-2024-SHAPERS_Yasir-Al-Rumayyan-NEW.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME100 AI 2024: Yasir Al-Rumayyan og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: TIME100 AI 2024: Yasir Al-Rumayyan twitter:description: Find out why Yasir Al-Rumayyan made TIME’s list of the most influential people in artificial intelligence twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2340897159a24355/698a5a94b21a9c2c7d50a6be/TIME100-AI-2024-SHAPERS_Yasir-Al-Rumayyan-NEW.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Updated: Sep 09, 2024Published: Sep 05, 2024 # Yasir Al-Rumayyan > Sponsored content. 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Terms and conditions apply. * Savings buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Savings Account. * No ATM fees from Ally Bank at Allpoint and Moneypass ATMs plus we reimburse for fees charged by other ATM owners nationwide up to $10 per statement cycle. * Early direct deposit offers eligible direct deposits up to two days sooner. * Spending buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Spending Account. by [Harry Booth](https://time.com/author/harry-booth/) ## Harry Booth Booth is a reporter at TIME.  Photo-Illustration by TIME (Source: Stefan Rousseau—WPA Pool/Getty Images) Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) [reportedly](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/19/business/saudi-arabia-investment-artificial-intelligence.html) plans to create a $40 billion fund for investing in AI, potentially in collaboration with venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. The proposed fund dwarfs typical venture capital investments and transforms the Middle Eastern country into one of the largest state-funders of AI. The move came a month after the PIF’s announcement of a new [$100 billion fund](https://alat.com/en/newsroom/hrh-crown-prince-launches-alat/) for semiconductors and related industries, as the country seeks to diversify its economy from oil. "We are fairly well positioned to be an AI hub outside of the US," the PIF’s governor, Yasir al-Rumayyan, [said](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4MDEFvhOEc) last February, citing the country’s funding capacity and energy resources. Al-Rumayyan, a close ally of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, has spent almost a decade pushing the fund into tech, beginning with a $3.5 billion investment in Uber in 2016, one of the largest foreign state investments in a startup ever. PIF’s relationship to Silicon Valley grew closer with its announcement of Neom in 2017, a plan to build 10 futuristic smart cities with the help of [top tech executives, including Sam Altman, Marc Andreessen, and Travis Kalanick.](https://x.com/NEOM/status/1049689427239456769/photo/1) But relationships between tech executives and the fund soured after a controversial anti-corruption crackdown that targeted the country’s elites in late 2017, and the murder of journalist [Jamal Khashoggi](https://time.com/5428177/jamal-khashoggi-breakfast/) in a Saudi embassy in 2018. But the expensive and energy-hungry AI boom is fueling a shift once more towards the PIF. In late 2023, OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman, who previously [renounced](https://theintercept.com/2018/10/11/some-silicon-valley-superstars-ditching-saudi-advisory-board-after-khashoggi-disappearance-some-stay-silent/) his position on Neom’s advisory board in response to Khashoggi’s murder, reportedly [met with the PIF](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-19/altman-sought-billions-for-ai-chip-venture-before-openai-ouster) seeking investment for a new AI chip venture. And years after [initial negotiations](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-saudi-tech-exclusive/exclusive-apple-and-amazon-in-talks-to-set-up-in-saudi-arabia-sources-idUSKBN1EM0PZ/) seemingly cooled, Amazon made a dramatic re-entry into Saudi Arabia's tech landscape in March, pledging more than [$5.3 billion](https://press.aboutamazon.com/2024/3/aws-to-launch-an-infrastructure-region-in-the-kingdom-of-saudi-arabia) to build data centers in the country. **Correction, Sept. 9** _The original version of this story misstated the investment budget of the PIF's new fund for semiconductors and related industries. The budget is $100 billion, not $100 million._ _\*Disclosure: OpenAI and TIME have_ [_a licensing and technology agreement_](https://time.com/6992955/time-and-openai-announce-strategic-content-partnership/) _that allows OpenAI to access TIME's archives._ [_Buy your copy of the TIME100 AI issue here_](https://magazineshop.us/TIME100AI) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-ai-2024/7012835/yasir-al-rumayyan-2/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-ai-2024/7012835/yasir-al-rumayyan-2/"},"headline":"Yasir Al-Rumayyan","datePublished":"2024-09-05T11:15:36.000Z","dateModified":"2024-09-09T20:50:55.000Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/time100-ai-2024/7012835/yasir-al-rumayyan-2/","keywords":["Tech"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2340897159a24355/698a5a94b21a9c2c7d50a6be/TIME100-AI-2024-SHAPERS_Yasir-Al-Rumayyan-NEW.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Harry Booth","jobTitle":"Booth is a reporter at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/harry-booth/"}],"creator":"Harry Booth","articleSection":"Business","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2340897159a24355/698a5a94b21a9c2c7d50a6be/TIME100-AI-2024-SHAPERS_Yasir-Al-Rumayyan-NEW.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/business/","name":"Business"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-tech/","name":"Tech"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-ai-2024/7012835/yasir-al-rumayyan-2/","name":"Yasir Al-Rumayyan"}}]}] ```