Saudi-based AI infrastructure leader OmniOps has officially launched Bunyan (بنيان), the Kingdom’s first Inference-as-a-Service (IaaS) platform. The announcement follows a strategic meeting with H.E. Eng. Abdullah Amer Alswaha, Minister of Communications & Information Technology, highlighting national support for this pioneering step in the region’s AI evolution.
Introducing Bunyan: A Leap Forward in AI Infrastructure
Bunyan aims to redefine how AI applications are deployed, scaled, and optimized across Saudi Arabia. Built with a focus on data sovereignty, it empowers organizations to run advanced AI applications across text, vision, and speech, securely and efficiently.
Key performance breakthroughs include:
- ✅ 2x faster inference speeds
- ✅ 50% reduction in energy consumption
- ✅ 40% lower latency
These performance gains make Bunyan a cost-effective, high-performance solution for businesses across multiple sectors.
What Bunyan Offers
Bunyan isn’t just a platform, it’s a complete AI ecosystem. It combines powerful hardware, smart infrastructure, and easy-to-use interfaces to help businesses harness AI quickly.
- ✔️ End-to-end infrastructure, From model building to deployment with just a few clicks
- ✔️ Top-tier AI hardware support, Powered by NVIDIA and Groq chips
- ✔️ Unified model catalog, Access to LLMs, speech recognition, and computer vision models
- ✔️ Public and private model support, Flexibility to work with proprietary and open-source models
With Bunyan, organizations can build AI-driven applications like:
- ✅ HR chatbots for internal queries
- ✅ Document summarization tools
- ✅ Instant insights from unstructured business data
This reduces manual processes, accelerates decision-making, and drives better business outcomes.
Scalable, Compliant, and Sovereign
Built on OmniOps’ AI infrastructure software stack, Bunyan supports GPU-agnostic deployment. This means it runs on multiple hardware platforms without compromising on performance.
- ✔️ Deployment Flexibility, On-premise, virtual, or cloud setups
- ✔️ Data Sovereignty, Full control over sensitive information
- ✔️ Compliance-Ready, Meets regulatory requirements across sectors
These features make Bunyan an ideal choice for industries with strict data requirements, such as government, energy, aviation, and healthcare.
Empowering Saudi’s AI Future
OmniOps launched Bunyan in alignment with the Saudi National Strategy for Data and AI, reflecting a growing push to localize advanced technologies and reduce reliance on external infrastructure.
“Bunyan is a game-changer,” said Mohammed Altassan, CEO of OmniOps. “It gives enterprises the tools to maximize AI performance while minimizing costs. Most importantly, it keeps our data sovereign and secure.”
What does OmniOps do?
Founded in 2024, OmniOps is Saudi Arabia’s leading provider of AI infrastructure technologies. The company enables scalable, high-performance AI deployment across on-prem, cloud, and edge environments.
From powering deep learning to supporting generative AI breakthroughs, OmniOps is at the heart of Saudi’s AI transformation.