Wafer-scale chip designer Cerebras Systems has partnered with the UAE’s G42 to deploy an AI supercomputer in India.

Cerebras and G42 will deliver the system in partnership with the Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) and India’s Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), the two companies said in a statement.

The deployment was announced in the same week that India hosted an AI Impact Summit in New Delhi.

Once deployed, the system will offer eight petaflops of AI compute, operating under governance frameworks established by the Indian government to ensure sovereignty and compliance requirements. The supercomputer will also serve as a ‘foundational asset’ under the India AI Mission.

“Cerebras and G42 have already successfully delivered Condor Galaxy supercomputers in the United States, demonstrating how our technology is purpose-built for the most demanding AI workloads at scale,” said Andy Hock, chief strategy officer, Cerebras. “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.”

Manu Jain, CEO of G42 India, added: “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.”

Earlier this month, Cerebras announced it had raised $1 billion in a Series H funding round, valuing the company at $23bn. The fundraise came two weeks after the wafer-scale chip company announced a $10 billion deal with OpenAI that will see Cerebras deliver 750MW of compute power to the generative AI giant by 2028.

It had been suggested that the OpenAI deal would help diversify the chip designer away from the United Arab Emirates’ G42, which accounted for 87 percent of revenue in the first half of 2024.