Cerebras Systems Supply Supercomputer To Aleph Alpha To Develop AI For The German Armed Forces

Cerebras Systems supplying AI machines to Aleph Alpha (photo x @CerebrasSsystems)

JAKARTA - Silicon Valley company Cerebras Systems announced on Wednesday 15 May that it will supply the supercomputer system to Aleph Alpha, a German technology startup that will use it to develop artificial intelligence (AI) for the German Armed Forces.

Cerebras has created a computing system aimed at rivaling Nvidia in training AI systems with a huge amount of data. Previously, the company had won contracts to supply G42, a government-backed company in the United Arab Emirates, with a supercomputer AI, although those machines would be placed physically in the United States.

In contrast, a deal with Aleph Alpha, which is considered one of Europe's leading competitors to US companies such as OpenAI, will involve sending Cerebras supercomputers to a safe data center in Germany. This is the first time the Cerebras system has been installed in Europe.

"The German Armed Forces are top-level customers, and Aleph Alpha is one of the AI leaders," said Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman, quoted by VOI from Reuters. "The competition is very tight."

The two companies did not disclose the value of the deal but called it a multi-year agreement in which Cerebras would help Aleph Alpha train a generative AI model for the German Armed Forces.

"Like most companies, the armed forces are looking for world-class AI," said Feldman. "They want to train models for language, vision, and multi-type data models."