Story of 42 -The answer to life, the universe, and everything – Shining “Jewel of Gulf to the World”

Mathematics researcher Drew Sutherland helps solve decades-old sum-of-three-cubes puzzle, with help from "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."        

?A team led by Andrew Sutherland of MIT and Andrew Booker of Bristol University has solved the final piece of a famous 65-year-old math puzzle with an answer for the most elusive number of all: 42.

?This sum of three cubes puzzle, first set in 1954 at the University of Cambridge and known as the Diophantine Equation x3+y3+z3=k, challenged mathematicians to find solutions for numbers 1-100.Sutherland and Booker ran the computations over several months, but the final successful run was completed in just a few?weeks. When the email from Charity Engine arrived, it provided the first solution to x3+y3+z3=42:

42 = (-80538738812075974)^3 + 80435758145817515^3 + 12602123297335631^3

Source: Sandi Miller?|?Department of Mathematics - Massachusetts Institute of Technology

?A new Beginning – Shining Jewel of Gulf was Borne in UAE, Abu Dhabi aiming to serve humanity across the globe with the possibilities of AI- “Core 42”

During the Event "AI-A New Era" held in Abu Dhabi to host Satya Nadella, my attention got to a young SVP , with a profound background of Space technology, graduated from a top university in United States with an ample knowledge of AI was by far the best segment of that day next to Satya Nadella’s ?Keynote. ?

He is none other than Talal M. Al Kaissi , SVP of Core 42. Main seed for this article is about the “42 Story” and how this will be shining the Gulf and beyond with the advancements in AI and Supercomputing as a service for AI Model development for various industries including Health, Energy and combating climate change.

Being at the forefront of innovation and showing the world what’s possible their unmatched scalable infrastructure, cutting-edge AI solutions, robust professional and managed services empower nations and organizations to turn their aspirations into achievements, harnessing the latest technologies to make impactful advancements in their respective domains was the spotlight of the event.

Their Aspiration to become a catalyst for Artificial Generative AI (AGI) with a worthy focus on applying AI advancements for societal betterment was mind-boggling.

Some of the key highlight’s were interesting and applicable to present context and key objective of writing this article to unleash some of these interesting insights to all.

Sovereign Cloud of UAE

Leading Sovereign cloud provider for secure regulated workloads focusing on data sovereignty as the core of their equation. With the recent announcement between Microsoft and G-42 they are team up to provide offer sovereign cloud services in the UAE with an aim to not only transform industries but also create positive economic opportunities and lasting impacts on the well-being of individuals, communities, and society. A sovereign cloud?ensures all data including metadata stays on sovereign soil and prevents foreign access to data under all circumstances. It provides a trusted environment for storing and processing data that can never be transferred across borders and must remain under one jurisdiction will strengthen UAEs public sector growth and induction of AI.

Accelerating AI

One of the key objectives across Core 42 is to find solutions and addressing demanding challenges across healthcare, energy and Climate change which require High Performance Super computing power to resolve complex problems by accelerating AI work. ?In order to achieve this, their partnership with Cerebra’s , has given them the cutting ?edge technological advancement on Deep Learning. Celebra’s system works with many pharmaceutical companies such as AstraZeneca and GlaxoSmithKline because the effective technology of WSE-1 accelerates genetic and genomic research and shortens the time for drug discovery.

The Wafer-Scale Engine (WSE) is the revolutionary central processor for deep learning computer system. The second-generation WSE (WSE-2) powers CS-2 system is the largest computer chip ever built and the fastest AI processor on Earth. Unlike legacy, general-purpose processors, the WSE was built from the ground up to accelerate deep learning: 850,000 cores for sparse tensor operations, massive high bandwidth on-chip memory, and interconnect orders of magnitude faster than a traditional cluster could possibly achieve. Altogether, it gives you the deep learning compute resources equivalent to a cluster of legacy machines all in a single device, easy to program as a single node.

AI Supercomputing as Service – Building the largest cloud AI Supercomputer – A New beginning and a Hope!

While Training Models sometime become a technical barrier due to programming large GPU clusters are not easy for Machine Learning Developers. Most organizations adopt programming frameworks to manage and simplify the inherent complexity by adopting frameworks such as Microsoft DeepSpeed, Nvidia Megatron, Meta Fairscale, and Mosaic Foundry.

Cerebras performed a thorough analysis of these libraries and found that it takes on average ~38,000 lines of code to train a model over a GPU cluster. It is no wonder that large models only appear to emerge from premier AI labs –?the complexity is simply too high for most software teams to manage and training enterprise grade models for everyday societal problems isn’t easy as ?think . in order to achieve this G42 partnership with Cerebras has introduce the first? G42 with the partnership with Crebras have built the ?Condor-Galaxy 1(CG-1), a 4 exaFLOPS, 54 million core, 64-node AI supercomputer , Upon completion in 2024, the nine inter-connected supercomputers will have 36 exaFLOPS of AI compute, making it one of the most powerful cloud AI supercomputers in the world.

Condor Galaxy will be one of the largest cloud AI supercomputers in the world when its fully deployed in 2024 as per their roadmap. At 36 exaFLOPS, it’s 9 times more powerful than Nvidia’s Israel-1 supercomputer, and four times more powerful than Google’s largest announced TPU v4 pod.

With the power of CG-1, when its fully operational G42’s ???cloud offering to include fully configured AI supercomputers of up to 64 systems, providing customers with push button access to 4 exaFLOPs of AI performance will be revolutionize the industry with a easy access to all, AI Super computer as a service by G42 with their partnership.?

Deep focus on Gen AI

Cutting edge applied AI research with deep focus on Generative AI for enterprise use cases with having 25 Patents and 100s of research papers covering Computer vision, Machine learning, NLP & LLMs. One of their Creations which got my attention was “JAIS” (World largest open-source Arabic LLM- Jais is a 13-billion parameter model trained on a newly developed 395-billion-token Arabic and English dataset using Condor Galaxy-1 supercomputer)?

Cutting Edge Healthcare AI

One of their companies M42 is more specialized and focused on Driving Better healthcare to humanity by deep research and applications on Tech innovations and care. One of the key aspects was “Emirate Genome Program”.

Emirati Genome Program will sequence the complete genome of as many citizens as possible to support better prediction, prevention, and treatment of genetic and chronic illnesses for current and future generations. The data will be used to develop healthcare strategies to address the population’s specific needs now and, in the future, and support the advancement of preventive medicine in the UAE.?

Conquering the Orbit

game-changing advantages through trusted, high-quality geospatial data, geo-intelligence, and AI-powered data analytics.

By integrating spatial data and geographic allocations to AI systems, provides valuable insights and enhances the accuracy, efficiency, and effectiveness of AI algorithms and applications by adding spatial dimensions to the data.AI algorithms can take into account spatial relationships, proximity, and accessibility when making recommendations or predictions leading to improved pattern recognition and anomaly detection capabilities, AI algorithms can analyze geospatial data from sensors, satellite imagery, and historical records to track changes in ecosystems, assess environmental risks, and optimize resource allocation?

Data to fuel Energy Transition

Their partnership with ADNOC ( Abu Dhabi National Oil Company , one of the largest Oil Producer in the World) , focusing on how Data , AI can be sued to build Energy related to build framework for Oil and Gas industry with a focus on how AI can be used to achieve ESG ( Environmental, Social and Governance ) accountability.

OpenAI in to 42 Family- The New Kid in the Block

With the recently announce partnership with OpenAI ,The collaboration between the two firms will focus on generative AI services, with both entities mulling the possibilities of an expansion to other regional markets, how regional enterprises can best leverage the power of generative AI in their specific use cases.

“At the core of our mission lies the pursuit of AI as a transformative force for good, fueling innovation and progress,” said G42 CEO Peng Xiao.

“Leveraging G42’s industry expertise, we aim to empower businesses and communities with effective solutions that resonate with the nuances of the region,” said OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.

Its Time

AGI is becoming a synonym in the evolution of mankind with the power to harness present and future problem solving in many areas. To fuel the growth and support this, Core 42 will play a vital role in Middle East and beyond with various industry focus to solve many complex problem’s by giving a hope to mankind. The perception of Oil driven economies of Gulf specially, UAE will be transformed to a more data driven fuel by AI. Economic potential of generative artificial intelligence estimated that the technology could add Billions of dollars to UAE economy.

In a Nutshell Core 42 will be the platform for UAE Economic transformation.

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