Tenstorrent and Infinia launch Abu Dhabi based Sovereign AI Initiative

Tenstorrent USA, Inc. and Infinia Technologies Limited are excited to announce a strategic partnership agreement to co-develop and commercialize sovereign AI infrastructure solutions from Abu Dhabi, with an initial focus on government, financial services, and critical infrastructure customers across the GCC. The agreement was signed by Jim Keller, CEO of Tenstorrent, and Arif Khan, CEO of Infinia, on the public signing platform at Abu Dhabi Finance Week on 9 December 2025.

Infinia is a subsidiary of Sirius International Holding, which forms part of Abu Dhabi’s International Holding Company (IHC) group, one of the region’s largest listed companies. The partnership aims to position Abu Dhabi as a development and deployment base for sovereignAI, data, and Web3.0 services that can be operated fully within national jurisdictions.

Under the agreement, Tenstorrent and Infinia will jointly engage in go-to-market activities for the SAIF Agentic AI Platform, powered by Tenstorrent’s next-generation silicon. SAIF is designed to deliver high-performance, sovereign AI that runs entirely inside agreed national boundaries, with a turnkey Tensix-based agentic appliance, enterprise security features, predictable and lower total costs of ownership, and faster time to value.

The partners will also develop and offer “Secure AI in a Box” solutions for customers who require sensitive workloads to remain on-premises. These systems will combine hardware, platform, and operational guardrails in a sealed physical environment, allowing advanced AI models to run on proprietary data under the customer’s own encryption and key management.

A third workstream will focus on a Web3.0 accelerator that provides “Proof as a Service” while meeting UAE sovereignty requirements and supporting decentralized service models. This layer is intended to extend sovereign AI into regulated financial and capital markets use cases, where auditability and local control are mandatory.

“Sovereign AI is about owning your compute destiny, not renting it,” said Jim Keller, CEO of Tenstorrent. “With Infinia and the wider IHC ecosystem, we can combine open architectures, RISC-V based CPUs, and agentic AI platforms to give governments and enterprises the option to run critical AI systems entirely on infrastructure they control, inside their own borders.”

Arif Khan, CEO of Infinia Technologies, said: “Abu Dhabi is moving fast to build real sovereign AI capacity, not just proofs of concept. Partnering with Tenstorrent lets us bring agentic AI, secure on-prem solutions, and compliant Web3.0 infrastructure to market together, with a clear path from pilots to scaled national platforms.”

The partnership complements Tenstorrent’s broader activity in sovereign and regional compute, including recent collaborations in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia on data center growth and national AI infrastructure.