UAE's G42 teams up with Cerebras to deploy 8 exaflops of compute in India | TechCrunch
Summary
G42 partners with Cerebras to deploy 8 exaflops of computing power in India, enhancing local AI capabilities and supporting data sovereignty.
Why It Matters
This collaboration signifies a major advancement in India's AI infrastructure, enabling local institutions to leverage powerful computing resources while ensuring data sovereignty. It reflects a growing trend of international partnerships aimed at bolstering national AI capabilities, which is crucial for economic competitiveness in the digital age.
Key Takeaways
- G42 and Cerebras are deploying a supercomputer in India with 8 exaflops of computing power.
- The project aims to support AI applications for educational institutions and SMEs while ensuring data sovereignty.
- This initiative aligns with India's broader goals to enhance its AI capabilities and attract significant infrastructure investments.
Abu Dhabi-based tech company G42 has partnered with U.S.-based chipmaker Cerebras to deploy 8 exaflops of computing power via a new supercomputer system in India, the companies said on the sidelines of the India AI Impact Summit in New Delhi. The system will be hosted in India and follow local data residency, security, and compliance rules. The project aims to provide computing resources for AI applications to educational institutions, government entities, and small and medium enterprises. “Sovereign AI infrastructure is becoming essential for national competitiveness. This project brings that capability to India at a national scale, enabling local researchers, innovators, and enterprises to become AI-native while maintaining full data sovereignty and security,” Manu Jain, CEO of G42 India, said in 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 also part of the project. Last year, MBZUAI and G42 released Nanda 87B, a Hindi-English large language model built on Meta’s Llama 3.1 70B model, that is purported to understand casual speech in Hindi and English. “Deploying this system in India marks a significant step forward in the country’s computational capacity and sovereign AI initiatives. It will accelerate training and inference for large-scale models, enabling researchers and developers to build AI tailored to India’s needs,” said Andy Hock, chief strategy office...
