Abu Dhabi-based technology company G42 has partnered with US chipmaker Cerebras to deploy 8 exaflops of computing power through a new supercomputing 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 location, security and compliance rules. The project aims to provide computing resources for AI applications to educational institutions, government entities and small and medium-sized enterprises.
“Sovereign 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 sovereignty and data security,” said Manu Jain, CEO of G42 India.
Abu Dhabi’s Mohammed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) and India’s Center for the Advancement of Computing (C-DAC) are also part of the project. Last year, MBZUAI and G42 released the Nanda 87B, a Hindi-English large language model built on Meta’s Llama 3.1 70B model, which is supposed to understand common speech in Hindi and English.
“Deploying this system in India marks a significant step forward in the country’s computing 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 officer at Cerebras.
At the India AI Impact Summit this week, several AI infrastructure initiatives were launched by Indian giants as well as international firms.
Indian conglomerate Adani has pledged $100 billion to build up to 5 gigawatts of data center capacity in the country by 2035. Reliance has also said it will invest $110 billion in gigawatt-scale data centers over the next seven years.
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OpenAI has partnered with the Tata Group to secure 100 megawatts of AI computing in the country as part of its Stargate project, eventually scaling 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 through a combination of tax incentives, state-backed venture capital and policy support.
So far, US tech giants including Amazon, Google and Microsoft have committed around $70 billion to expand the country’s AI and cloud infrastructure.