Abu Dhabi-based technology company G42 has partnered with US-based chipmaker Cerebras to bring 8 exaflops of computing power to India through a new supercomputer system, the companies announced on the sidelines of the India AI Impact Summit in New Delhi.
This system is hosted in India and follows local data residency, security, and compliance regulations. The project aims to provide educational institutions, government agencies, and small and medium-sized businesses with computing resources for AI applications.
“Sovereign AI infrastructure is becoming essential for national competitiveness. This project brings that capability to India on a national scale, enabling local researchers, innovators and businesses to become AI native 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 released Nanda 87B, a large-scale language model for Hindi and English built on Meta’s Llama 3.1 70B model. It is said to be able to understand casual conversations in Hindi and English.
“Bringing this system to India is a major step forward in India’s computing power and sovereign AI journey. It will accelerate large-scale model training and inference, enabling researchers and developers to build AI tailored to India’s needs,” said Andy Hock, chief strategy officer at Cerebras.
This week’s India AI Impact Summit saw the launch of several AI infrastructure initiatives by both large Indian 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 announced that it will invest $110 billion in gigawatt data centers over the next seven years.
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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, which will eventually scale up to 1 gigawatt. India 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, Technology Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw told the summit.
So far, US tech giants including Amazon, Google and Microsoft have already committed about $70 billion to expanding AI and cloud infrastructure in the country.
