UAE’s G42 teams up with Cerebras to deploy 8 exaflops of compute in India

Source: TechCrunch

G42 and Cerebras Deploy 8 Exaflops Supercomputer in India

Abu Dhabi‑based tech company G42 has partnered with U.S. chipmaker Cerebras to deploy a new supercomputer system in India delivering 8 exaflops of compute. The announcement was made on the sidelines of the India AI Impact Summit in New Delhi.

The system will be hosted in India and will comply with local data‑residency, security, and compliance rules. The project aims to provide AI‑computing resources for:

• Educational institutions
• Government entities
• 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 (statement).

Partners and Related Work

• Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) – Abu Dhabi
• Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C‑DAC) – India

Last year, MBZUAI and G42 released Nanda 87B, a Hindi‑English large language model built on Meta’s Llama 3.1 70B, designed to understand casual speech in both languages.

“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,” — Andy Hock, Chief Strategy Officer at Cerebras.

Broader AI Infrastructure Initiatives in India

The India AI Impact Summit highlighted several major commitments from both Indian conglomerates and international firms:

• Adani Group pledged $100 billion to build up to 5 GW of data‑center capacity by 2035.
  Source: TechCrunch – Adani pledge
• Reliance Industries announced a $110 billion investment over the next seven years for gigawatt‑scale data centers.
  Source: TechCrunch – Reliance investment
• OpenAI partnered with the Tata Group to secure 100 MW of AI compute in India as part of its Stargate project, with plans to scale to 1 GW.
  Source: TechCrunch – OpenAI & Tata
• India’s Technology Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw announced a target to attract over $200 billion in AI infrastructure investment over the next two years, using tax incentives, state‑backed venture capital, and policy support.
  Source: TechCrunch – $200 B investment plan

U.S. technology giants have already committed roughly $70 billion to expand AI and cloud infrastructure in India:

• Amazon – additional $35 billion (total planned spending $75 billion)
  Source: TechCrunch – Amazon investment
• Google – $15 billion for an Indian AI infrastructure hub
  Source: TechCrunch – Google investment
• Microsoft – $17.5 billion by 2029
  Source: TechCrunch – Microsoft investment

These commitments collectively underscore India’s rapid expansion of sovereign AI compute capacity and its emerging role as a global AI hub.