Riyadh - Sharikat Mubasher: Groq, the AI inference platform redefining price and performance, announced the exclusive launch of Meta's Llama 4 Scout and Maverick models in Saudi Arabia to serve the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region and Europe through the Dammam data center.

This launch marks a significant milestone in positioning the Middle East as a hub for cutting-edge AI infrastructure, following the activation of the largest inference cluster in the region, located in Dammam, the company stated in a press release today.

Available only on GroqCloud™, Llama 4 will help developers have day-zero access to Meta's most advanced openly available models.

Commenting on this milestone, Jonathan Ross, CEO and Founder of Groq, said: “We built Groq to drive the cost of compute to zero. Together with our partners, we're delivering Llama 4 to the region with high-performance inference that runs faster, costs less, and doesn't compromise."

"The integration of Llama 4 with Groq technology marks a major step forward in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's journey toward technological leadership," said Tareq Amin.

Llama 4 is Meta's latest openly available model family, featuring Mixture of Experts (MoE) architecture and native multimodality. Its models are designed with native multimodality, incorporating early fusion to seamlessly integrate text and vision tokens into a unified model backbone.