Cerebras Systems indicators $100 million AI supercomputer take care of UAE’s G42

Cerebras Systems on Thursday stated that it has signed an roughly $100 million deal to provide the primary of three synthetic intelligence (AI) supercomputers to the United Arab Emirates-based know-how group G42.

The deal comes as cloud computing suppliers world wide are looking for options to chips from Nvidia Corp, the market chief in AI computing whose merchandise are in brief provide, due to the surging reputation of ChatGPT and different companies. Cerebras is one in all a number of startups trying to problem Nvidia.

Silicon Valley-based Cerebras stated that G42 has agreed to buy three of what it calls its Condor Galaxy programs, all of which it’ll construct within the U.S. to hurry up the roll out. The first one will come on-line this yr, with two extra coming in early 2024.

Abu Dhabi-based G42, a tech conglomerate with 9 working firms that embody datacenter and cloud service companies, says it plans to make use of the Cerebras programs to promote AI computing companies to well being care and vitality firms. G42 has raised $800 million from U.S. tech funding agency Silver Lake, which has backing from Mudabala, the UAE’s soverign wealth fund.

“Cerebras has what they call a ‘white glove’ service that made it easy for us” to construct AI programs on its machines, G42 Cloud CEO Talal AlKaissi advised Reuters.

“There will be some excess capacity that we hope to wholesale with Cerebras to customers in the open-source AI community from many places around the world, especially in the U.S. ecosystem.”

The contract to finish the primary of the three programs introduced on Thursday is value about $100 million, Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman stated.

“What we’re saying is that the $100 million contract takes us through Condor Galaxy 1… That’s the unit, the building block.”

G42 Cloud’s AlKaissi declined to touch upon the phrases of the deal.