Abu Dhabi-based technology company G42 has partnered with U.S. chipmaker Cerebras to deploy a new supercomputer system in India. This system will deliver eight exaflops of computing power. The announcement was made during the India AI Impact Summit in New Delhi.
The supercomputer will be hosted within India and will adhere to all local data residency, security, and compliance regulations. The project is designed to provide critical computing resources for artificial intelligence applications to educational institutions, government bodies, and small and medium enterprises.
Manu Jain, the CEO of G42 India, emphasized the importance of this initiative in a statement. He said that sovereign AI infrastructure is now essential for national competitiveness, and this project brings that capability to India at a national scale. It will enable local researchers, innovators, and businesses to become AI-native while maintaining full data sovereignty and security.
The project also involves Abu Dhabi’s Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence and India’s Centre for Development of Advanced Computing. Last year, MBZUAI and G42 released a Hindi-English large language model called Nanda 87B, which is built on Meta’s Llama 3.1 70B model and is designed to understand casual speech in both languages.
Andy Hock, chief strategy officer at Cerebras, noted that deploying this system in India marks a significant step forward for the country’s computational capacity and sovereign AI initiatives. He stated it will accelerate the training and use of large-scale AI models, allowing developers to build technology tailored to India’s specific needs.
The India AI Impact Summit featured several other major AI infrastructure announcements. Indian conglomerate Adani pledged one hundred billion dollars to build up to five gigawatts of data center capacity in the country by 2035. Reliance also announced a plan to invest one hundred ten billion dollars over the next seven years for gigawatt-scale data centers.
In other partnerships, OpenAI has teamed up with Tata Group to secure one hundred megawatts of AI compute capacity in India as part of its Stargate project, with plans to eventually scale it to one gigawatt. At the summit, India’s technology minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said the country aims to attract over two hundred billion dollars in AI infrastructure investment within the next two years through tax incentives, state-backed venture capital, and policy support.
To date, U.S. technology giants including Amazon, Google, and Microsoft have already committed approximately seventy billion dollars to expand AI and cloud infrastructure in India.