Core42, a G42 company specializing in sovereign cloud, AI infrastructure, and digital services, has launched the AI Playground in UAE data centers. Built on Qualcomm® Cloud AI accelerators and the Qualcomm® AI Inference Suite for Cloud, the platform is designed to streamline AI adoption and deployment for developers and AI engineers.
The AI Playground offers free access to high-performance AI applications, tools, libraries, and pre-built generative AI applications, enabling developers to easily scale and optimize AI solutions for cloud and edge devices. It simplifies infrastructure by integrating AI inference accelerators, standardized APIs, and pre-built applications, fostering the widespread adoption of AI technologies across industries.
Raghu Chakravarthi, EVP of Engineering at Core42, highlighted that the platform’s goal is to make AI more accessible, scalable, and efficient, accelerating innovation and sustainability. The Qualcomm AI Inference Suite offers enterprise-ready tools to build AI agents for use cases such as chat, reasoning, code or image generation, and more. The platform supports Kubernetes and bare-metal container deployments, integrating with popular AI models and frameworks.
Rashid Attar, SVP of Cloud Computing at Qualcomm Technologies, emphasized the collaboration’s potential to enable breakthroughs in fields like smart city automation, digital marketing, and medical AI applications. Core42’s partnership with Qualcomm ensures developers seamless access to advanced AI models, boosting performance while reducing operational costs.
The AI Playground is now available for developers and AI engineers to explore, with the aim of empowering them to stay ahead in AI innovation. Developers can access the platform at playground.core42.ai.
