Cerebras to expand AI infrastructure to the UAE
Cerebras plans megawatt deployment for Stargate UAE project
#UAE #GITEXGLOBAL2025 - California-based artificial intelligence chip designer Cerebras Systems plans to deploy its AI infrastructure to the United Arab Emirates to support the Stargate UAE project, according to comments made by CEO Andrew Feldman to Reuters. The company intends to deploy “megawatts worth of equipment” in the UAE, alongside market expansion into India and Pakistan. The expansion builds on the existing partnership with G42’s sovereign AI and cloud services company Core42. The deployment could see an extension Cerebras’ Condor Galaxy network, which currently delivers at least 20 exaFLOPS of AI compute capacity across US locations in Santa Clara, Stockton, Dallas and Minneapolis, into new international markets to serve regional and global enterprises.
SO WHAT? - Cerebras already plans to deploy at least four new datacenters strategically located across the U.S. and Europe, bringing AI compute closer to customers. By 2026, Cerebras expects to be the market leader in real-time ai inference, able to serve over 40 million Llama 70B tokens per second. In light of the Condor Galaxy supercomputer network created with Core42, it has always been expected that Cerebras would one day deploy infrastructure in the UAE.
However, tightening US export regulations have thus far prevented such an expansion. The new found optimism expressed by Cerebras, follows the announcement of a US-UAE AI Acceleration Partnership framework this year and the recent US approval of several billion dollars of NVIDIA exports to the UAE.
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Cerebras Systems plans to deploy its AI infrastructure to the United Arab Emirates to support the Stargate UAE project, according to comments made by CEO Andrew Feldman to Reuters during GITEX GLOBAL 2025..
The California-headquartered AI chip designer recently raised $1.1 billion in Series G funding at an $8.1 billion valuation, led by Fidelity and Atreides Management, with participation from venture capital firms Tiger Global, Valor Equity Partners and 1789 Capital.
According to the CEO, Cerebas intends to deploy “megawatts worth of equipment” to support the Stargate UAE project, the first global hub for OpenAI’s Stargate network, as well as to expand operations into India and Pakistan markets.
Cerebras will use funding proceeds to scale manufacturing capacity and finance new data centre operations, targeting expansion from six existing sites to between 12 and 15 locations over the next months, primarily across North America with plans for international expansion including France (expected late 2025 / early 2026).
Abu Dhabi-backed cloud and artificial intelligence company G42 is among Cerebras’ largest clients, forming a partnership lunch the Condor Galaxy supercomputer network in 2023.
Cerebras and Core42 built and deployed three supercomputers in 2023 and 2024 based in the USA, providing the Condor Galaxy AI supercomputer network with 16 PetaFLOPs of performance. No systems were deployed in the UAE due to restrictions on export licensing introduced during the Biden administration.
Cerebras Systems competes with industry leader Nvidia in the rapidly expanding artificial intelligence training and inference chip market, providing super-high-performance computing systems.
G42 acquired a 1% stake in 2021 for $40 million and signed a convertible purchase agreement for 22.9 million additional shares valued at $335 million with options for further acquisition at discounted rates.
ZOOM OUT - G42’s sovereign AI and cloud services subsidiary Core42 launched the Condor Galaxy network with Cerebras in July 2023 as a strategic partnership to deliver cloud-based supercomputing for AI model training at global scale. The partnership began with a $100 million deal, with Cerebras supplying Condor Galaxy 1, a 4 exaFLOP system linking 64 Cerebras CS-2 processors. Deployed in Santa Clara, the system was the largest supercomputer ever built for AI training at the time. With an original target of 36 exaFLOPS total capacity, the network has since commissioned three additional systems, exceeding 20 exaFLOPS operational capacity. The network positions Core42 as a leader in supercomputing services for commercial, government and institutional customers globally, and has established Condor Galaxy as a distributed alternative to hyperscaler-controlled AI infrastructure.
[Written and edited with the assistance of AI]
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