Cerebras plans humongous AI supercomputer in India backed by UAE

Nvidia rival Cerebras Systems' dinner plate-sized accelerators will power a new supercomputing cluster in India capable of 8 exaFLOPS of AI compute.

The installation, announced in New Delhi during the AI Impact Summit this week, is part of a collaboration between the United Arab Emirates' Mohamed Bin Zayed University of AI (MBZUAI) and India's Center for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC).

The system itself will be deployed by the UAE's AI crown jewel, technology company G42, in a bid to bolster the nation's sovereign compute capacity. If G42 sounds familiar, that's because the UAE-based cloud provider and AI model dev is one of Cerebras' largest backers, having previously financed the chip startup's Condor Galaxy deployment effort at an estimated cost of $900 million.

G42 has sought to carve out a niche by helping other nations build sovereign AI models trained in their native languages. Late ...