Nvidia rival Cerebras Systems' dinner plate-sized accelerators will power a new supercomputing cluster in India capable of 8 exaFLOPS of AI compute. The installation, announced in New Delhi during the AI Impact Summit this week, is part of a collaboration between the United Arab Emirates' Mohamed Bin Zayed University of AI (MBZUAI) and India's Center for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC).
Yes, the integration is rapid, and that's something that both [Rami] Rahim and [Antonio] Neri have been pointing to, that they're not going to take years and years to do this, that, you know, they're starting it now.
In July, Peter Kyle, during his tenure as secretary of state at the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, wrote to the chair of the Alan Turing Institute, Douglas Gurr, calling for the institute to change its strategic focus. In the letter, Kyle said: "ATI's current non-defence activity would need to be reoriented to support this renewed focus and strengthen the UK's sovereign AI capabilities."
Australian cloud provider ResetData aims to enhance national security and compliance through sovereign AI, ensuring systems and data remain within the country's jurisdiction.