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

Abu Dhabi-based tech institution G42 has partnered with U.S.-based chipmaker Cerebras to deploy 8 exaflops of computing powerfulness via a caller supercomputer strategy successful India, the companies said connected the sidelines of the India AI Impact Summit successful New Delhi.

The strategy volition beryllium hosted successful India and travel section information residency, security, and compliance rules. The task aims to supply computing resources for AI applications to acquisition institutions, authorities entities, and tiny and mean enterprises.

“Sovereign AI infrastructure is becoming indispensable for nationalist competitiveness. This task brings that capableness to India astatine a nationalist scale, enabling section researchers, innovators, and enterprises to go AI-native portion maintaining afloat information sovereignty and security,” Manu Jain, CEO of G42 India, said successful a statement.

Abu Dhabi’s Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) and India’s Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) are besides portion of the project. Last year, MBZUAI and G42 released Nanda 87B, a Hindi-English ample connection exemplary built connected Meta’s Llama 3.1 70B model, that is purported to recognize casual code successful Hindi and English.

“Deploying this strategy successful India marks a important measurement guardant successful the country’s computational capableness and sovereign AI initiatives. It volition accelerate grooming and inference for large-scale models, enabling researchers and developers to physique AI tailored to India’s needs,” said Andy Hock, main strategy serviceman astatine Cerebras.

The India AI Impact Summit this week saw respective AI infrastructure initiatives being launched by some Indian giants and planetary firms.

Indian conglomerate Adani pledged $100 billion to physique up to 5 gigawatts of data-center capableness successful the state by 2035. Reliance besides said it would put $110 billion implicit the adjacent 7 years for gigawatt-scale information centers.

OpenAI has teamed up with Tata Group to unafraid 100 megawatts of AI compute successful the state arsenic portion of its Stargate project, and yet standard it to 1 gigawatts. And India’s exertion curate Ashwini Vaishnaw said astatine the acme that the state plans to pull implicit $200 cardinal successful infrastructure investment implicit the adjacent 2 years by rolling retired a premix of taxation incentives, state-backed task capital, and argumentation support.

So far, U.S. exertion giants, including Amazon, Google, and Microsoft, person already committed astir $70 billion to grow AI and unreality infrastructure successful the country.