UAE’s G42 teams up with Cerebras to deploy 8 exaflops of compute in India

Abu Dhabi-based technology firm G42 has partnered with U.S. chipmaker Cerebras to deploy a new supercomputer system in India delivering 8 exaflops of computing power. The system will be hosted in India, complying with local data residency, security, and compliance regulations, and aims to provide advanced AI computing resources to educational institutions, government bodies, and small and medium enterprises. This initiative is designed to bolster India’s sovereign AI infrastructure, enabling local researchers and innovators to develop AI technologies while maintaining full data sovereignty. The project also involves Abu Dhabi’s Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) and India’s Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC). This deployment marks a significant enhancement in India’s computational capacity and AI capabilities, accelerating the training and inference of large-scale AI models tailored to Indian needs. The collaboration builds on previous efforts such as the release of a Hindi-English large language model based on Meta’s Llama 3.1 by MBZU