U.S. chip maker Nvidia will partner with Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund-owned AI startup Humain and will ship 18,000 chips to the Middle Eastern nation to help power a new data center project.The partnership was revealed Tuesday as part of a White House trip to Saudi Arabia,

The networking and security company said the partnership aims to build the world’s most open, scalable, resilient and cost-efficient AI infrastructure, and position Saudi Arabia as a global leader in digital innovation.

It’s a sharp reversal from the past few months, when the S&P 500 was down as much as 17% as investors fretted over the effects of President Donald Trump’s tariff policies. But