ABU DHABI: Abu Dhabi will establish a national-scale artificial intelligence (AI) supercomputer in India with a computing capacity of eight exaflops, marking a major step forward in India’s AI infrastructure development.

The announcement was made on the sidelines of the AI Impact Summit 2026 in New Delhi and follows the fifth India-UAE Strategic Dialogue held in December 2025, as well as the visit of UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan to India in January 2026. The engagements reinforced cooperation in defence, technology, space and energy.

The system will be delivered by G42, an Abu Dhabi-based global technology group, in partnership with US firm Cerebras, which manufactures high-performance AI computing systems.

The initiative also involves Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, a postgraduate AI research institution in Abu Dhabi, and India’s Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), a government-run organisation specialising in supercomputing and advanced IT research.

An eight-exaflop system is capable of performing eight quintillion calculations per second, placing it among the world’s most powerful computing platforms. Officials said the development will significantly enhance India’s domestic capacity to train and deploy advanced AI models.

The supercomputer will be hosted within India and operate under governance frameworks defined by Indian authorities, with all data remaining within national jurisdiction to meet sovereign security and regulatory requirements.

The project builds on earlier collaboration between G42 and MBZUAI. In December 2025, the two organisations released NANDA 87B, an open-source Hindi-English large language model containing 87 billion parameters, designed to support AI applications in regional languages.