Abu Dhabi technology group G42 and AI chipmaker Cerebras have announced plans to establish a national-scale AI supercomputer in India with a peak compute capacity of 8 exaflops, in a project that marks a significant expansion of the country’s domestic AI infrastructure. The system will be built in partnership with the Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) and India’s Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC).
The announcement was made on the sidelines of the AI Impact Summit 2026 in New Delhi. It comes in the wake of the fifth India-UAE Strategic Dialogue held in December 2025 and the visit of UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan to India in January 2026, which cemented a comprehensive bilateral partnership spanning defence, technology, space and energy.
“Sovereign AI infrastructure is becoming essential for national competitiveness,” said Manu Jain, CEO of G42 India. “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.”
Andy Hock, Chief Strategy Officer of Cerebras, pointed to the company’s existing track record with G42, noting that the two had already delivered the Condor Galaxy supercomputers in the United States. “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,” he said.
The project builds on growing collaboration between G42 and MBZUAI in the region. In December 2025, the two organisations released NANDA 87B, an open-source Hindi-English large language model featuring 87 billion parameters. India, one of the world’s fastest-growing digital economies, has been identified by both partners as central to advancing AI innovation across the region.
