ABU DHABI – 20 February 2026: Abu Dhabi will establish a national-scale AI supercomputer in India with a peak capacity of 8 exaflops, marking a major milestone in India’s AI infrastructure development.
The system will be delivered by G42, the Abu Dhabi-based global technology group, and Cerebras, in partnership with Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) and India’s Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), according to a WAM report.
The project was announced on the sidelines of the AI Impact Summit 2026 in New Delhi. It follows the 5th India-UAE Strategic Dialogue held in December 2025 and the January 2026 visit of President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan to India, which reinforced bilateral cooperation across defence, technology, space and energy.
With 8 exaflops of compute capacity, the system represents a significant expansion of India’s domestic AI capabilities and signals a transition to exaflop-scale infrastructure. The supercomputer will be hosted within India and operate under India-defined governance frameworks, with all data remaining within national jurisdiction to meet sovereign security and compliance requirements. It will serve as a core asset under the India AI Mission.
Manu Jain, CEO of G42 India, said sovereign AI infrastructure is critical for national competitiveness and noted that the project will enable Indian researchers, enterprises and innovators to build AI capabilities while maintaining full data sovereignty.
Once operational, the system will be accessible to a broad ecosystem, including academic institutions, startups, SMEs and government entities, with the aim of lowering barriers to AI innovation for applications serving India’s 1.4 billion population.
Richard Morton, Executive Director at MBZUAI’s Institute of Foundation Models, said the collaboration reflects a shared commitment to expanding advanced AI compute access for research and education, supporting breakthroughs in sectors such as healthcare, agriculture and education.
Andy Hock, Chief Strategy Officer at Cerebras, highlighted the company’s experience in delivering Condor Galaxy supercomputers in the US, adding that the India deployment will accelerate large-scale model training and inference aligned with national AI priorities.
The initiative builds on G42’s broader efforts to support sovereign AI ecosystems globally. In December 2025, G42 and MBZUAI released NANDA 87B, an open-source Hindi-English large language model with 87 billion parameters.
