Aleph Alpha Selects Cerebras to Build Next-Gen Sovereign AI Models
May 15 2024 - 9:49AM
Business Wire
Aleph Alpha to Leverage Cerebras AI Expertise
and CS-3 AI Supercomputers to Train First Sovereign GenAI Models
for BWI GmbH
Cerebras Systems, a pioneer in accelerating generative
artificial intelligence (AI), today announced a multi-year
partnership with world-leading AI company Aleph Alpha to develop
secure sovereign AI solutions. The first deliverables of the
collaboration will produce cutting-edge generative AI models
trained to the industry’s highest degree of accuracy with BWI for
the German Armed Forces.
“This partnership with Cerebras marks Aleph Alpha’s commitment
to building a new class of compute-efficient AI models that are
sovereign and trustworthy for use by governments and citizens,”
said Jonas Andrulis, founder and CEO of Aleph Alpha. “We chose
Cerebras because of their world-class AI expertise and peerless
wafer-scale technology that enables us to train state-of-the-art AI
models with high efficiency.”
Aleph Alpha will be the first organization in Europe to deploy
Cerebras CS-3 AI supercomputers at alpha ONE, its world-leading
datacenter. Alpha ONE is the fastest commercial European AI
datacenter and ensures the sovereign research and development of
cutting-edge AI applications for the public sector and private
enterprises This partnership will enable the AI teams at Aleph
Alpha and Cerebras to explore new avenues for AI innovation,
including the creation of foundation models, multimodal models, and
new model architectures.
“We are honored that Aleph Alpha selected us to advance
state-of-the-art AI using our industry-leading hardware and ML
expertise,” said Andrew Feldman, CEO of Cerebras. “With Aleph
Alpha’s impressive track record of creating sovereign and secure AI
solutions, we believe this new partnership will produce a new class
of AI model architectures that governments and enterprises
worldwide can benefit from, in a safe and secure way.”
For more information on the Cerebras and Aleph Alpha
partnership, please visit
https://www.cerebras.net/cerebras-customer-spotlight-overview/spotlight-aleph-alpha/.
About Cerebras Systems
Cerebras Systems is a team of pioneering computer architects,
computer scientists, deep learning researchers, and engineers of
all types. We have come together to accelerate generative AI by
building a new class of computer system. Our flagship product, the
CS-2 system, is powered by the world’s largest and fastest AI
processor, our Wafer-Scale Engine. It makes training large models
simple and easy by avoiding the complexity of distributed
computing. Cerebras CS-2s are clustered together to make the
largest AI supercomputers in the world, which are used by leading
corporations for proprietary models, and to train open-source
models with millions of downloads. Cerebras solutions are available
through the Cerebras Cloud and on premise. For further information,
visit https://www.cerebras.net.
About Aleph Alpha
Aleph Alpha is a European AI company founded in 2019 with the
mission to research and develop generative AI enabling technology
for a new era of powerful AI. The team of international scientists,
engineers and innovators researches, develops and implements
transformative AI such as large-scale AI language and multimodal
models and operates the fastest European commercial AI data center.
Aleph Alpha's generative AI solutions can help companies and public
institutions maintain technological independence, secure data and
build trustworthy solutions.
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