On the final day of the India AI Impact Summit 2026, the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) finalised a term sheet with UAE-based tech company G42 to deploy a supercomputer cluster in India. In an official statement, the external affairs ministry (MEA) said that the finalisation of the term sheet commences the deployment process. The ministry added that the supercomputer cluster will be open for access to startups as well as other public and private sector entities for research, application development, and commercial use. Elaborating more on this, G42 said that it will partner US-based AI chipmaker Cerebras to set up a “national-scale” AI supercomputer in India with a peak compute capacity of eight exaflops. G42 said that it will also partner with the Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (in Abu Dhabi) and C-DAC to deliver the project. The proposed supercomputer cluster will be hosted in India and will operate under the country’s governance frameworks. Additionally, all data processed by the supercomputer will remain within the country. “Deploying this system in India marks a significant step forward in the country’s computational capacity and sovereign AI initiatives. It will accelerate training and inference for large-scale models, enabling… Read MoreInc42 Media
