Abu Dhabi-based technology company G42 has partnered with US chipmaker Cerebras to deploy 8 exaflops of computing power through 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 will follow local data residency, security and compliance rules. The project aims to provide computing resources for artificial intelligence applications to educational institutions, government agencies and small and medium-sized enterprises.
“Dominant AI infrastructure is becoming essential for national competitiveness. This project brings this capability to India on a national scale, enabling local researchers, innovators and businesses to become AI-native while maintaining full data sovereignty and security,” said Manu Jain, CEO of G42 India.
Abu Dhabi’s Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) and India’s Advanced Computing Development Center (C-DAC) are also part of the project. Last year, MBZUAI and G42 were released Nanda 87Ba large Hindi-English language model based on Meta’s Llama 3.1 70B model, which is supposed to understand casual speech in Hindi and English.
“The deployment of this system in India marks a major step forward in the country’s computing capacity and mainstream AI initiatives. It will accelerate the training and inference of large-scale models, enabling researchers and developers to build AI tailored to India’s needs,” said Andy Hock, Chief Strategy Officer at Cerebras.
The India AI Impact Summit this week saw the launch of several AI infrastructure initiatives from both Indian giants and international companies.
India’s Adani Group has pledged $100 billion to build up to 5 gigawatts of data center capacity in the country by 2035. Reliance also said it will invest $110 billion over the next seven years for gigawatt-scale data centers.
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OpenAI has partnered with the Tata Group to secure 100 megawatts of AI computing in the country as part of the Stargate project and eventually scale it to 1 gigawatt. And India’s technology minister Ashwini Vaishnaw told the summit that the country plans to attract more than $200 billion in infrastructure investment over the next two years by creating a combination of tax incentives, state-backed venture capital and policy support.
So far, American tech giants, including Amazon, Google and Microsoft, have already done so approximately $70 billion was committed to expand AI and cloud infrastructure in the country.
