- Updated: February 20, 2026
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G42 and Cerebras Deploy 8 Exaflop AI Supercomputer in India – UBOS News
G42 and Cerebras have joined forces to launch an 8 exaflop AI supercomputer in India, delivering sovereign, high‑performance compute for research, government, and SMBs.
Announced at the India AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, the partnership promises a nation‑scale AI infrastructure that complies with local data‑residency rules while offering unprecedented compute power for large‑language models, scientific simulations, and enterprise workloads. The deployment marks a pivotal moment for India’s AI ecosystem, positioning the country among the few with native exascale capabilities.
Background: Who Are G42 and Cerebras?
G42, an Abu‑Dhabi‑based AI leader, has built a reputation for delivering end‑to‑end AI solutions across cloud, edge, and sovereign data centers. Its portfolio spans everything from autonomous vehicles to advanced medical imaging. Cerebras, headquartered in the United States, is renowned for its wafer‑scale engine (WSE) – the world’s largest chip that powers AI workloads with unmatched bandwidth and energy efficiency.
Both companies share a common vision: to democratize access to massive compute while preserving data sovereignty. Their collaboration leverages G42’s regional expertise and Cerebras’s breakthrough hardware, creating a hybrid ecosystem that can serve Indian academia, startups, and large enterprises alike.
Technical Details of the 8 Exaflop Deployment
The supercomputer will be built around Cerebras’s latest WSE‑3, each wafer delivering up to 4 exaflops of mixed‑precision performance. Two such wafers will be interconnected, achieving a combined peak of 8 exaflops. Key technical specifications include:
- Memory bandwidth exceeding 2 TB/s per wafer, eliminating the traditional bottleneck between CPU and GPU.
- Integrated liquid‑cooling system designed for India’s varied climate zones.
- Support for both FP16 and BF16 precision, optimizing training for large‑scale language models.
- Compliance with Indian data‑residency, security, and privacy regulations.
The system will be hosted in a purpose‑built data center in Hyderabad, co‑located with G42’s existing cloud edge nodes. This proximity reduces latency for Indian developers and enables seamless integration with G42’s UBOS platform overview, which provides a unified interface for provisioning, monitoring, and scaling AI workloads.
Impact on India’s AI Ecosystem and Industry
The 8 exaflop machine is expected to catalyze several strategic outcomes:
- Accelerated Research: Universities such as IITs and research institutes like C‑DAC can train models that were previously out of reach, fostering breakthroughs in natural language processing, climate modeling, and drug discovery.
- SMB Empowerment: Small and medium businesses will gain on‑demand access to exascale resources via a pay‑as‑you‑go model, reducing capital expenditure and speeding time‑to‑market for AI‑driven products.
- National Security & Sovereignty: Government agencies can run sensitive workloads locally, ensuring compliance with the About UBOS data‑privacy standards.
- Talent Retention: By providing world‑class infrastructure, India can retain top AI talent that might otherwise migrate to overseas labs.
Industry analysts predict that the supercomputer will boost India’s AI compute capacity by more than 30% within the first year, narrowing the gap with leading AI hubs in the United States and China.
Executive and Analyst Perspectives
“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,” said Manu Jain, CEO of G42 India.
“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,” noted Andy Hock, Chief Strategy Officer at Cerebras.
“The availability of exaflop‑scale compute will unlock new use‑cases in healthcare, agriculture, and finance, sectors where India has a massive data advantage,” commented Radhika Menon, senior analyst at TechInsights.
Future Roadmap and Potential Collaborations
Beyond the initial deployment, G42 and Cerebras have outlined a multi‑phase roadmap:
- Phase 2 (2027): Expansion to a second data center in Bangalore, adding another 4 exaflops of capacity.
- Phase 3 (2028‑2029): Integration with emerging AI services on the Enterprise AI platform by UBOS, enabling plug‑and‑play AI agents for enterprises.
- Collaboration with Startups: Leveraging the UBOS for startups program to incubate AI‑first companies that can directly consume the supercomputer’s resources.
- Partner Ecosystem: Opening the UBOS partner program to system integrators, allowing them to build custom solutions on top of the exascale hardware.
These initiatives aim to create a virtuous cycle where hardware, software, and talent co‑evolve, positioning India as a global AI powerhouse.
Explore How UBOS Can Accelerate Your AI Journey
If you’re an enterprise looking to harness exascale compute, UBOS offers a suite of tools that simplify deployment, monitoring, and scaling:
- Web app editor on UBOS – Build AI‑driven dashboards without writing code.
- Workflow automation studio – Orchestrate data pipelines that feed the supercomputer.
- AI marketing agents – Deploy intelligent agents that leverage the new compute for real‑time personalization.
- UBOS pricing plans – Flexible consumption models tailored for startups, SMBs, and enterprises.
- UBOS portfolio examples – See how other companies are already benefiting from high‑performance AI.
- UBOS templates for quick start – Jump‑start projects with pre‑built AI app templates.
Ready to prototype a next‑gen AI solution? Check out some of our ready‑made templates that can run on the new supercomputer:
- AI SEO Analyzer – Optimize content at scale using massive language models.
- AI YouTube Comment Analysis tool – Gain sentiment insights from billions of comments.
- AI Article Copywriter – Generate high‑quality articles in seconds.
- AI Video Generator – Create video content from text prompts using the exaflop engine.
- AI Chatbot template – Deploy conversational agents that can answer complex queries instantly.
- GPT-Powered Telegram Bot – Leverage the Telegram integration on UBOS for real‑time AI assistance.
- AI Voice Assistant – Combine ElevenLabs AI voice integration with exascale compute for natural‑language interactions.
Explore the full catalog of AI‑powered solutions on the UBOS homepage and discover how you can tap into the new 8 exaflop resource to accelerate innovation.
Source Attribution
The details of this partnership were originally reported by TechCrunch. UBOS has contextualized the announcement for the Indian AI community.