​US Vultr plans AMD AI cluster in Chennai

Chennai: Vultr, a US cloud AI provider, has announced it will build AI infrastructure in India with a 20 MW data centre in Chennai, targeting enterprise and sovereign cloud initiatives.Vultr will deploy AMD Instinct class of graphics processing units (GPUs), creating the country’s largest AMD Instinct deployment and will be one of the world’s largest AMD AI infrastructure deployments globally for the copmany it said in a release.​AMD GPUs​ along with Nvidia plays a key role in developing and deploying AI ​m​odels. The Chennai cluster is designed to serve AI labs, AI-native startups, enterprises and research and academic institutions. It will support demanding AI workloads, including large language model and foundation model training, fine-tuning and inference,​ it said.“Enterprises deploying AI at scale need infrastructure they can access locally to meet data sovereignty, data residency, and latency requirements,” said JJ Kardwell, chief executive of Vultr, the world’s largest privately held cloud infrastructure company competing with hyperscalers such as AWS. The Chennai supercluster will also give developers access to widely used AI frameworks, libraries and models.You use AI every day. Now get your AI Quotient. Take the AIQ test.