By Max A. Cherney(Reuters) - Silicon Valley firm Cerebras Systems on Wednesday said it will supply a supercomputing system to Aleph Alpha, a German technology startup that will use it to develop artificial intelligence for the German Armed Forces. Cerebras has created a computing system that aims to rival Nvidia for training AI systems with huge amounts of data. By contrast, the deal with Aleph Alpha, a leading AI firm viewed as among Europe's rivals to U.S. firms such as OpenAI, will involve shipping Cerebras supercomputers to a secure data center in Germany, the first time that a Cerebras system has been installed in Europe. "The German Armed Forces is a top-tier customer, and Aleph Alpha is one of the AI leaders," Cerebras Chief Executive Andrew Feldman told Reuters. The two companies did not give a value for the deal but described it as a multi-year agreement in which Cerebras would help Aleph Alpha train generative AI models for the German Armed Forces.

Source: Wall Street Journal May 15, 2024 19:13 UTC