G42, India finalise commercial framework for Condor Galaxy
UAE President and India’s Prime Minister witness landmark compute agreement
#UAE #India #supercomputers — Abu Dhabi-based global AI technology group G42 and the Government of India have formalised the commercial framework for Condor Galaxy India, an 8-exaflop AI supercomputing cluster built on 64 Cerebras CS-3 systems, set to become one of the largest AI compute clusters in India. The agreement was witnessed by UAE President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan and Indian Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi during Modi’s official state visit to Abu Dhabi this week. The agreement builds on a bilateral Memorandum of Understanding signed in 2024. G42 will deploy and operate the system in partnership with India’s national advanced computing body C-DAC (Centre for Development of Advanced Computing), with all data remaining under Indian national jurisdiction.
SO WHAT? — Sovereign AI infrastructure is becoming a defining priority for governments worldwide. India has the AI talent and the ambition, but building national-scale compute capacity, under domestic governance, has remained a challenge. The Condor Galaxy India deployment aims to directly addresses this gap. At 8 exaflops, it marks a generational step up in India’s domestic AI compute capability, giving researchers, enterprises, start-ups, and government ministries access to frontier infrastructure without ceding data sovereignty to foreign cloud providers. The fact that two heads of state witnessed the signing highlights the compute deal’s strategic significance.
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G42 and the Government of India have formalised the commercial and operational terms for Condor Galaxy India, an 8-exaflop AI supercomputing cluster comprising 64 Cerebras CS-3 systems. The agreement was signed during Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s official state visit to Abu Dhabi, witnessed by UAE President H.H. Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan.
At 8 exaflops, Condor Galaxy India will be perhaps the largest AI compute cluster in the country. Commissioning the supercomputer will mark a significant transition to exaflop-scale AI infrastructure and expand India’s domestic compute capabilities for advanced AI development under full sovereign governance.
The system will be operated in partnership with C-DAC, India’s Centre for Development of Advanced Computing. G42 will be responsible for installation, deployment, operations, and maintenance, with all data remaining within Indian national jurisdiction and subject to Indian governance frameworks.
Condor Galaxy India is built on Cerebras CS-3 systems, powered by the company’s Wafer Scale Engine 3, the world’s largest and fastest AI processor. The processor is 56 times larger than the biggest GPU and delivering inference and training more than 20 times faster than competing systems, while consuming a fraction of the power per unit of compute.
The deployment extends an existing G42-Cerebras partnership that has already produced a network of Condor Galaxy supercomputing clusters across the United States. The India deployment takes that footprint into one of the world’s most consequential emerging AI markets.
Access to the system will be democratised across India’s innovation ecosystem, from premier research institutions and government ministries to start-ups and small and medium enterprises, lowering the barriers to AI innovation at national scale.
The supercomputer will underpin joint R&D between India and the UAE across health and genomics, energy, and geospatial analytics, enabling researchers and institutions from both countries to pursue frontier science and address large-scale national challenges.
Cerebras recently completed one of the most significant IPOs in the AI sector, listing on the Nasdaq stock exchange under the ticker CBRS, a signal of strong market confidence in dedicated AI infrastructure as a distinct and growing asset class.
G42 has already demonstrated its commitment to India’s domestic AI capability. In December 2025, G42 and Abu Dhabi research university Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) released Nanda 87B, an open-source Hindi-English large language model with 87 billion parameters, built to support India’s domestic AI development.
ZOOM OUT — Condor Galaxy India is the latest chapter in a supercomputing story that began in July 2023, when G42 and Cerebras launched Condor Galaxy 1, which was, at the time, the largest AI training supercomputer ever built. Located in Santa Clara, California, the 4-exaflop, 54-million-core system linked 64 Cerebras CS-2 processors into a single cloud-accessible AI supercomputer. The original plan was to build a US network of three systems totalling 36 exaflops. The ambition has since grown considerably. The Condor Galaxy network already carries 20 exaflops of capacity across four US locations, with four additional systems planned, including a deployment in France. Condor Galaxy India, at 8 exaflops, will be the network’s first deployment in Asia and its first under a sovereign national governance framework.
[Written and edited with the assistance of AI]
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