The Sunnyvale, Calif.-headquartered firm’s new Cerebras for Nations program will supply supercomputers powered by its chips to data centres with public- or private-sector backing. It will also help governments develop custom AI models. (The Logic)

Talking point: Cerebras is starting with Guyana, building a 100-megawatt data centre in the country in Wales, at an industrial site powered by natural gas. The firm has been eyeing the sovereign AI compute market for some time. Countries want to “manage risk by having control over this asset, which [they] believe will be strategic,” CEO Andrew Feldman told The Logic last June. Cerebras has also expressed interest in participating in Canada’s plans for sovereign AI. Toronto hosts a major Cerebras office where staff develop the software that controls its hardware. OpenAI is also offering to build data centres for countries that help pay for the infrastructure, while Toronto-founded Tenstorrent is licensing its IP to governments trying to develop their own AI hardware.