Microsoft-Backed G42 to Build India's Largest Supercomputer with 8 Exaflop Power
Microsoft and Mubadala-backed G42 is set to build India's largest supercomputer, featuring eight exaflops of computing power capable of executing millions of trillion floating-point operations per second, according to a senior company official. G42 India CEO Manu Jain also revealed the launch of a beta version of the Hindi language large language model, an AI engine that allows users to communicate in Hindi, English, and Hinglish (a blend of Hindi and English).
He said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had visited Abu Dhabi earlier this year and a memorandum of understanding on digital infrastructure was signed between India and the UAE. "We are the chosen implementation partner to execute this MoU. The MoU had spoken about three things - setting up a very large 2 gigawatt data centre in India. This can double the existing capacity of data centres in India. The second is building one of India's largest supercomputers up to 8 exaflops which we (G42) are building with Cerebras, and third was co-developing AI models in India", Jain said.
He, however, did not mention the timeline for setting up the data centre and supercomputer. "We are very thrilled that today we have launched Nanda, the Hindi large language model. The name of the LLM has been derived from India's top mountain peak", Jain said.
He said NANDA had been trained on a 13-billion parameter model trained on approximately 2.13 trillion tokens of language datasets, including Hindi. "With NANDA, we are heralding a new era of AI inclusivity, ensuring that the rich heritage and depth of Hindi language is represented in the digital and AI landscape. NANDA exemplifies G42's unwavering commitment to excellence and fostering equitable AI", G242 group company Inception's Acting CEO Andrew Jackson said.
