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Business Wire
5 days ago
- Business
- Business Wire
G42 Launches OpenAI GPT-OSS Globally on Core42's AI Cloud
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Core42, a G42 company specializing in sovereign cloud and AI infrastructure, announced the availability of OpenAI's latest open-weight AI models, including gpt-oss-20B and gpt-oss-120B, on the Core42 AI Cloud platform, instantly accessible through the Core42 Compass API. The deployment enables enterprises, researchers, and developers to run the models on a choice of leading silicon platforms with sovereign, scalable, and high-performance capabilities. Integrated into Compass API with the flexibility to access a wide spectrum of high-performance compute platforms, Core42 delivers industry-leading inference speeds of up to 3,000 tokens per second per user, enabling real-time AI at global scale while aligning workloads with the optimal infrastructure for price-performance and scalability. This deployment delivers tailored performance for low-latency inference workloads and applications, reinforcing Core42's commitment to secure and optimized global sovereign-enabled AI infrastructure. 'Core42 AI Cloud, powered by silicon-diverse infrastructure, delivers the flexibility and performance needed for today's AI workloads,' said Kiril Evtimov, CEO of Core42 and Group CTO, G42. 'Through the Compass API, organizations can access the latest open-weight AI models and choose the optimal platform to scale transformation, optimize performance and cost, and drive progress across global markets.' Key Benefits of Core42's Open-Weight Deployment: Enterprise-scale performance – Run the fastest, most demanding workloads at global scale, enabling advanced automation, decision-making, and real-time AI experiences. Sovereign-ready scalability – Deploy high-performance AI in-country with full sovereign controls, supporting secure operations in regulated sectors such as healthcare, finance, and national security. Optimized for committed environments – Deliver fast, scalable AI in-country with sovereign controls for organizations operating under committed infrastructure agreements, ensuring predictable cost and performance. Cost-efficient agentic AI – Run agentic workloads at the lowest possible cost while maintaining in-country deployment and sovereign controls, making advanced AI accessible to cost-sensitive use cases. Available now through Compass API, these models let organizations run and adapt AI locally or in the cloud, with full transparency, fine-tuning, and sovereign deployment options. Customers can align performance, cost, and compliance to their needs. This release marks a pivotal move toward enterprise AI autonomy. With open-weight access, businesses can shape AI to their unique needs and unlock new possibilities for innovation at scale. This announcement builds on G42's recent milestones, including the unveiling of a 5GW US-UAE AI campus and the launch of the 1GW Stargate UAE facility as Phase 1 of the project, as well as a $1.5 billion investment from Microsoft in 2024, reinforcing the UAE's role as a global AI hub. For more information, visit and About Core42 Core42, a G42 company, empowers individuals, enterprises, and nations to unlock the full potential of AI through its comprehensive enablement capabilities. As a leading provider of sovereign cloud, AI infrastructure, and services, our mission is to accelerate the achievements of others and help them reach their most ambitious goals. To learn more, please visit and follow Core42 LinkedIn, Core42 Instagram, Core42 X About G42 G42 is a global leader in creating visionary artificial intelligence capabilities for a better tomorrow. Born in Abu Dhabi and operating around the world, G42 champions AI as a powerful force for good. Its people are constantly reimagining what technology can do, applying advanced thinking and innovation to accelerate progress and tackle society's most pressing problems. G42 is joining forces with nations, corporations and individuals to create the infrastructure for tomorrow's world. From molecular biology to space exploration and everything in between, G42 realizes exponential possibilities, today. For further information visit Source: AETOSWire
Channel Post MEA
6 days ago
- Business
- Channel Post MEA
G42 Launches OpenAI GPT-OSS On Core42's AI Cloud
Core42, a G42 company, has announced the availability of OpenAI's latest open-weight AI models, including gpt-oss-20B and gpt-oss-120B, on the Core42 AI Cloud platform, instantly accessible through the Core42 Compass API. The deployment enables enterprises, researchers, and developers to run the models on a choice of leading silicon platforms with sovereign, scalable, and high-performance capabilities. Integrated into Compass API with the flexibility to access a wide spectrum of high-performance compute platforms, Core42 delivers industry-leading inference speeds of up to 3,000 tokens per second per user, enabling real-time AI at global scale while aligning workloads with the optimal infrastructure for price-performance and scalability. This deployment delivers tailored performance for low-latency inference workloads and applications, reinforcing Core42's commitment to secure and optimized global sovereign-enabled AI infrastructure. 'Core42 AI Cloud, powered by silicon-diverse infrastructure, delivers the flexibility and performance needed for today's AI workloads,' said Kiril Evtimov, CEO of Core42 and Group CTO, G42. 'Through the Compass API, organizations can access the latest open-weight AI models and choose the optimal platform to scale transformation, optimize performance and cost, and drive progress across global markets.' Key Benefits of Core42's Open-Weight Deployment: Enterprise-scale performance – Run the fastest, most demanding workloads at global scale, enabling advanced automation, decision-making, and real-time AI experiences. – Run the fastest, most demanding workloads at global scale, enabling advanced automation, decision-making, and real-time AI experiences. Sovereign-ready scalability – Deploy high-performance AI in-country with full sovereign controls, supporting secure operations in regulated sectors such as healthcare, finance, and national security. – Deploy high-performance AI in-country with full sovereign controls, supporting secure operations in regulated sectors such as healthcare, finance, and national security. Optimized for committed environments – Deliver fast, scalable AI in-country with sovereign controls for organizations operating under committed infrastructure agreements, ensuring predictable cost and performance. – Deliver fast, scalable AI in-country with sovereign controls for organizations operating under committed infrastructure agreements, ensuring predictable cost and performance. Cost-efficient agentic AI– Run agentic workloads at the lowest possible cost while maintaining in-country deployment and sovereign controls, making advanced AI accessible to cost-sensitive use cases. Available now through Compass API, these models let organizations run and adapt AI locally or in the cloud, with full transparency, fine-tuning, and sovereign deployment options. Customers can align performance, cost, and compliance to their needs. This release marks a pivotal move toward enterprise AI autonomy. With open-weight access, businesses can shape AI to their unique needs and unlock new possibilities for innovation at scale. This announcement builds on G42's recent milestones, including the unveiling of a 5GW US-UAE AI campus and the launch of the 1GW Stargate UAE facility as Phase 1 of the project, as well as a $1.5 billion investment from Microsoft in 2024, reinforcing the UAE's role as a global AI hub.
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Business Standard
06-05-2025
- Business
- Business Standard
Mideast titans step back from AI model race as US, China dominate
Within months of ChatGPT's release in late 2022, research labs in the United Arab Emirates claimed to have developed credible rivals. At the top of the list was Falcon, a popular open-source artificial intelligence system built with government support, and Jais, a model named for the country's highest mountain peak. The 'future of AI is not a distant dream, but a present reality,' Peng Xiao, chief executive officer of Emirati tech conglomerate G42, said in a statement in 2023 shortly after the firm launched Jais. But today, the UAE's dream of competitive, homegrown AI models remains far off. Falcon is significantly behind leading options from US companies in user numbers and public rankings. G42, meanwhile, recently pulled resources from Jais and is instead focused on building bespoke features on top of AI models from other companies, including OpenAI. Also Read Two-plus years into the generative AI frenzy, the global race to develop ever more sophisticated models increasingly looks like a competition between two countries. A handful of US firms continue to lead in AI development by spending billions on chips, data centers and talent to build the best and biggest models. China, meanwhile, is rapidly catching up and flooding the market with low-cost, open-source models to expand its reach. Most other nations, even wealthy ones like the UAE, are lost somewhere in the middle. A growing number of once promising AI ventures in the Middle East and Europe have fizzled or all but given up. Germany's Aleph Alpha, hailed at one time as Europe's rival to OpenAI, made a similar decision to G42 last year. Britain's Stability AI, an early AI model pioneer, has petered out after management issues. Even companies like France's Mistral, backed by significant venture funding and championed by the country's government, has shown little evidence of strong commercial traction or developer interest. In the Middle East, as in other markets, companies are rethinking whether the cost of building a cutting-edge AI model from scratch is worthwhile. Jais could be a competitive 'frontier model' if G42 continues to invest, said Kiril Evtimov, an executive running its cloud unit, Core42. 'But is that the right business strategy for us to capture the market? Probably the answer is no.' In 2023, the UAE launched a new firm, AI71, touted as a commercial vehicle for Falcon, a model developed by a government research arm. AI71 ended up following G42 and Aleph Alpha in making AI tools for specific business uses relying on multiple models, including Falcon, according to a spokesperson. While Falcon remains the most competitive offering from the UAE, it has struggled to keep up with advances from open-source alternatives from Meta Platforms Inc. and China's DeepSeek. In 2023, the Technology Innovation Institute (TII), the entity behind Falcon, touted the AI system's first-place ranking in open-source models on Hugging Face, a closely-watched barometer for the industry. As of last week, Falcon did not rank in the top 500 on the platform's leaderboard. A representative for TII said Falcon now has more than 55 million downloads. That's a small fraction of Meta's family of Llama models, which have been downloaded more than 1 billion times. The representative said integrations with cybersecurity, robotics and cloud companies will be announced soon. 'The value of a model lies not only in its initial benchmark performance, but in how it contributes to and enables broader innovation over time,' the representative said in a statement. G42, meanwhile, has pursued other ways to get into the current AI boom beyond model development. Its data center business is expanding in the Gulf region and MGX, an investing fund the company co-formed, has backed US AI developers OpenAI and xAI. Some countries are still trying to challenge the US and China on AI development. In January, India's government said it would support 18 different proposals to build foundational AI models, which a minister pledged would 'compete with the best of the best.' Saudi Arabia's AI agency also paired with International Business Machines Corp. last year to offer its homegrown national model, ALLaM, via the tech company's cloud services. Nations pursue these so-called sovereign models to have more control over how the AI systems are trained, either to influence how they work or lessen dependence on foreign tech, Michael Bronstein, a professor of AI at the University of Oxford, said at the Machines Can See conference in Dubai. But he said the prevalence of open-source models means these approaches have little odds of remaining competitive. Some of these models were also pitched as ways to better represent languages and populations unmet by Silicon Valley. OpenAI and its peers trained their models mostly on the internet, which heavily skews toward English. But an effective tool for Arabic doesn't require making a large language model from scratch, said Nour Al Hassan, CEO of Tarjama, a translation provider based in Dubai. A new startup her company incubated, recently released an AI system that Al Hassan said was created by fine-tuning a range of large models, an approach she said is better suited for price-sensitive corporate clients. 'You don't need such massive models to do a specific task for a bank,' she said. G42's Jais was also designed to power chatbots in Arabic. In September, G42 released Nanda, a Hindi language model, as part of its expansion efforts in India. The company and its research partners will continue to update these two models, according to Andrew Jackson, who runs G42's AI unit, Inception.
Tahawul Tech
10-02-2025
- Business
- Tahawul Tech
G42 and AMD to enable AI innovation in France through strategic investments
Abu Dhabi — G42, the leading AI technology group from Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE), announced today a strategic investment in France in partnership with DataOne, Europe's first gigascale AI hosting infrastructure data center. Spearheaded by Core42, a G42 company specializing in sovereign cloud and AI infrastructure, the initiative will establish a state-of-the-art AI data center in Grenoble. Equipped with AMD GPUs, this advanced facility will empower enterprises, researchers, and innovators with cutting-edge AI infrastructure. Unveiled at the AI Action Summit in Paris, this milestone reinforces G42's commitment to advancing AI innovation globally while delivering innovative AI capabilities from the UAE to the world. By integrating the latest AMD Instinct accelerator technologies, Core42 will equip French enterprises, researchers, and innovators with the computational capabilities needed to develop and scale sophisticated AI models, agents, applications and research. The facility is expected to be fully operational by mid 2025. The investment represents a commitment by G42 to foster strategic partnerships within the European AI ecosystem to accelerate digital transformation across industries. These strategic arrangements guarantee that France's AI-driven enterprises have direct access to industry-leading AI infrastructure, further positioning the country as a center for AI excellence. Kiril Evtimov, Group CTO of G42 and CEO of Core42, said, 'France is taking bold strides in AI innovation, and G42 is proud to contribute to this effort. By deploying AMD GPUs, we are not only strengthening Europe's AI infrastructure but also enabling enterprises and researchers to accelerate innovation at scale. Our collaboration with local providers ensures seamless access to the computational power needed to drive the next wave of AI advancement in France and beyond.' The strategic partnership with DataOne enables immediate market access and infrastructure optimization. The investment reinforces G42's commitment to expanding global AI capabilities while strengthening European technological sovereignty. 'Our strategic collaboration with G42 will help energize the French AI ecosystem, providing the compute capacity needed to enable the local AI start-ups and AI pioneers who are driving state-of-the-art innovation and strengthening the French economy,' said Lisa Su, AMD Chair and CEO. 'Our work with G42 is the latest example of our commitment to combine open ecosystems with industry-leading AMD AI technologies to empower public institutions and private enterprises to harness the full potential of AI.' G42's investment in France is a testament to its mission of shaping the future of AI through strategic global partnerships and advanced infrastructure. As the demand for AI computing continues to surge, Core42 remains at the forefront of this transformation, providing optionality with a heterogeneous AI cloud offering that includes multiple AI accelerator options, expanding their global footprint, strengthening AI accessibility, and driving AI-powered advancements across Europe and beyond. In addition, AMD brings extensive experience in engaging with the French AI startup ecosystem. It looks to continue supporting innovative startups in the region through its venture program, AMD Ventures. 'We are extremely proud to count Core42 among our esteemed clientele and thrilled to take on the challenge of deploying their largest AI supercomputer in Europe within just 20 weeks,' said Charles-Antoine Beyney, CEO of DataOne.
Zawya
10-02-2025
- Business
- Zawya
G42 & AMD to enable AI innovation in France through strategic investments
Core42, G42's digital infrastructure company, deploying AMD Instinct Accelerator technology in Grenoble, is establishing one of France's most powerful AI compute facilities The strategic partnership with DataOne enables immediate market access and infrastructure optimization Investment reinforces G42's commitment to expanding global AI capabilities while strengthening European technological sovereignty Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates: G42, the leading AI technology group from Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE), announced today a strategic investment in France in partnership with DataOne, Europe's first giga-scale AI hosting infrastructure data center. Spearheaded by Core42, a G42 company specializing in sovereign cloud and AI infrastructure, the initiative will establish a state-of-the-art AI data center in Grenoble. Equipped with AMD GPUs, this advanced facility will empower enterprises, researchers, and innovators with cutting-edge AI infrastructure. Unveiled at the AI Action Summit in Paris, this milestone reinforces G42's commitment to advancing AI innovation globally while delivering innovative AI capabilities from the UAE to the world. By integrating the latest AMD Instinct accelerator technologies, Core42 will equip French enterprises, researchers, and innovators with the computational capabilities needed to develop and scale sophisticated AI models, agents, applications and research. The facility is expected to be fully operational by mid 2025. The investment represents a commitment by G42 to foster strategic partnerships within the European AI ecosystem to accelerate digital transformation across industries. These strategic arrangements guarantee that France's AI-driven enterprises have direct access to industry-leading AI infrastructure, further positioning the country as a center for AI excellence. Commenting on the announcement, Kiril Evtimov, Group CTO of G42 and CEO of Core42, said, "France is taking bold strides in AI innovation, and G42 is proud to contribute to this effort. By deploying AMD GPUs, we are not only strengthening Europe's AI infrastructure but also enabling enterprises and researchers to accelerate innovation at scale. Our collaboration with local providers ensures seamless access to the computational power needed to drive the next wave of AI advancement in France and beyond." 'Our strategic collaboration with G42 will help energize the French AI ecosystem, providing the compute capacity needed to enable the local AI start-ups and AI pioneers who are driving state-of-the-art innovation and strengthening the French economy," said Lisa Su, AMD Chair and CEO. 'Our work with G42 is the latest example of our commitment to combine open ecosystems with industry-leading AMD AI technologies to empower public institutions and private enterprises to harness the full potential of AI.' 'We are extremely proud to count Core42 among our esteemed clientele and thrilled to take on the challenge of deploying their largest AI supercomputer in Europe within just 20 weeks,' said Charles-Antoine Beyney, CEO of DataOne. G42's investment in France is a testament to its mission of shaping the future of AI through strategic global partnerships and advanced infrastructure. As the demand for AI compute continues to surge, Core42 remains at the forefront of this transformation providing optionality with a heterogeneous AI cloud offering that includes multiple AI accelerator options expanding their global footprint, strengthening AI accessibility and driving AI-powered advancements across Europe and beyond. In addition, AMD brings extensive experience in engaging with the French AI startup ecosystem. It looks to continue supporting innovative startups in the region through its venture program, AMD Ventures. About G42 G42 is a technology holding group, a global leader in creating visionary artificial intelligence for a better tomorrow. Born in Abu Dhabi and operating worldwide, G42 champions AI as a powerful force for good across industries. From molecular biology to space exploration and everything in between, G42 realizes exponential possibilities, today. To know more visit About Core42 Core42, a G42 company, empowers individuals, enterprises, and nations to unlock the full potential of AI through its comprehensive enablement capabilities. As a leading provider of sovereign cloud, AI infrastructure, and services, our mission is to accelerate the achievements of others and help them reach their most ambitious goals. To learn more, please visit and follow Core42 LinkedIn, Core42 Instagram, Core42 X About AMD For more than 50 years AMD has driven innovation in high-performance computing, graphics and visualization technologies. AMD employees are focused on building leadership high-performance and adaptive products that push the boundaries of what is possible. Billions of people, leading Fortune 500 businesses and cutting-edge scientific research institutions around the world rely on AMD technology daily to improve how they live, work and play. For more information about how AMD is enabling today and inspiring tomorrow, visit the AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) website, blog, LinkedIn and X pages. About DataOne DataOne is Europe's first company fully dedicated to the design, construction, operation, and financing of next-generation AI-driven sustainable data centers. DataOne's cutting-edge facilities are engineered to handle extreme computing demands, supporting high-density racks from 60kW to an unprecedented 500kW. With GIGA-scale infrastructures being developed in Lyon and Grenoble (France), DataOne is pioneering the future of ultra-efficient, high-performance and sustainable AI data centers. New global locations will be announced soon. For more information: , follow DataOne on LinkedIn
