UAE’s G42 announces collaboration with global tech giant Qualcomm

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The UAE-based artificial intelligence firm G42 said it had agreed to a collaboration with US group Qualcomm under which its subsidiary Core42 would feature Qualcomm’s Cloud AI 100 products in its Condor AI platform, a G42 statement said.

G42 said it would be collaborating with Qualcomm Technologies to bring the high performance, low power Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 solutions to the market through Core42’s Condor AI platform.

The Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 inference solutions are designed to provide industry-leading energy efficiency, portability, flexibility and price-performance for customers running computationally intense AI workloads, added G42 in its statement.

Kiril Evtimov, group CTO of G42 and CEO of Core42, said “At G42, we collaborate with global technology leaders to explore new frontiers and redefine the potential of technology to create transformative opportunities for our partners, our customers, and society at large. With Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 Ultra, we will deliver unique access to unparalleled AI performance at a fraction of the current cost.”

G42 pushes the boundaries

Core42’s Condor AI is a cutting-edge cloud computing platform delivering an optimised infrastructure layer with solutions from market-leading AI providers. The Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 Ultra AI accelerators are engineered to deliver unparalleled inference performance and cost efficiency, added the statement.

“This solution enables global access to a platform tuned for efficient AI inference at cloud scale. This alliance delivers high-performance AI, easily deployed, at a cost that allows our customers to benefit from state-of-the-art model innovation,” said Nakul Duggal, group general manager, Automotive, Industrial and Cloud, Qualcomm Technologies.

G42 underscored the potential of the new platform, “By incorporating advanced data formats and novel AI techniques, such as unstructured sparsity, speculative sampling, and use-case specific NAS using the combination of Cerebras’ CS-3 and AI 100 Ultra, the Condor AI platform is designed to deliver up to 10x increase in tokens per dollar.”

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