Every country is slowly discovering that "just use the API" gets awkward when the API becomes infrastructure.

> Cerebras is built for speed in running AI applications, which matches India’s focus on deploying AI across healthcare, agriculture, and public services

Oh no not this again. Using domain specific models for critical things like healthcare is probably the worst thing you can do. There's this stupid notion that you can just lean into AI slightly without committing and you can pay 10% and get 10% of capabilities - like just for healthcare, just for agriculture. That's not how it works.

I hope they don't cheap out and force industries to use some cute domain model on this Cerebras thing - this is the last thing India needs. India should partner with proper AI companies instead of half-assing here. If I could do something about it, I would recommend go all in on proper data centers and encourage hosting companies (that may host open models like Deepseek) as well as OpenAI/Anthropic to get their models here.

I also did rough maths on the throughput these chips support - 64 cerebras chips support around 500 RPS which is pretty low and insignificant IMO.

UAE feels significantly ahead of the curve on AI sovereignty, within the constraints of what a small but wealthy country can do. Between TII (state-owned) and its very credible Falcon models, G42 as a commercial / integrator offering, and a lot of time and energy being poured into the local AI university, they’re clearly taking AI Very Seriously in a way that puts other rich countries to shame.