Abu Dhabi-based technology company G42 has partnered with US-based 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 is hosted in India and follows local data residency, security and compliance rules. The project aims to provide computing resources for AI applications to educational institutions, government agencies, and small and medium-sized businesses.
“Sovereign AI infrastructure is becoming essential to national competitiveness. This project will provide India with these capabilities on a national scale, enabling local researchers, innovators and enterprises to become AI-driven while maintaining full data sovereignty and security,” Manu Jain, CEO of G42 India, said in a statement.
Abu Dhabi’s Mohammed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) and India’s Center for Advanced Computing Development (C-DAC) are also participating in the project. Last year, MBZUAI and G42 launched Nanda 87B, a Hindi-English large language model built on Meta’s Llama 3.1 70B model. It is known for understanding everyday conversations in Hindi and English.
Andy Hock, Chief Strategy Officer at Cerebras, said, “Deploying this system in India represents a significant step forward in the nation’s computational power and sovereign AI initiatives. It will accelerate training and inference for large-scale models, enabling researchers and developers to build AI that meets India’s needs.”
This week’s India AI Impact Summit saw the launch of several AI infrastructure initiatives by both Indian giants and international companies.
Indian conglomerate Adani has pledged $100 billion to build up to 5 gigawatts of data center capacity in the country by 2035. Reliance also said it would invest $110 billion over the next seven years for gigawatt-scale data centers.
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OpenAI has partnered with Tata Group to secure 100 megawatts of AI computing in the country as part of the Stargate project, ultimately expanding this 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 mix of tax incentives, state-backed venture capital and policy support.
So far, American tech giants including Amazon, Google, and Microsoft have already invested about $70 billion to expand AI and cloud infrastructure in the country.
