What motivated Core42 to launch the AI Playground, and how does it align with your broader strategy in AI infrastructure and sovereign cloud solutions?
Core42 launched the AI Playground to eliminate the complexity of managing AI infrastructure while making high-performance AI tools readily accessible to developers and AI engineers. By integrating Qualcomm’s Cloud AI accelerators and the AI Inference Suite, the platform aligns with our broader strategy at Core42, leveraging our expertise in sovereign cloud and AI infrastructure to provide secure, scalable, and cost-effective solutions that empower innovation across industries.
How do you see the AI Playground accelerating AI adoption in the UAE and the wider MENA region?
The AI Playground accelerates AI adoption in the UAE by offering an accessible, streamlined environment for AI development. It leverages Qualcomm’s Cloud AI accelerators and AI Inference Suite, delivering ready-to-use AI applications, standardised APIs, and pre-built generative AI tools. This free-to-access platform eliminates significant infrastructure hurdles, enabling developers to rapidly experiment, build, and deploy AI solutions on both cloud and edge devices. Consequently, industries can embrace AI more swiftly and efficiently, fostering rapid progress, decreasing time-to-market and driving digital transformation throughout the region.
With AI evolving rapidly, what role do you see Core42 playing in shaping AI infrastructure for enterprises in the next 3–5 years?
As AI technology evolves, Core42 is committed to staying at the forefront of AI infrastructure development. Over the next three to five years, we see ourselves as strategic enablers of enterprise digital transformation, continuously evolving our platform to incorporate the latest advancements. Our goal is to deliver resilient, scalable, and secure solutions that empower organisations to innovate quickly and confidently. We plan to expand our sovereign cloud capabilities and partner with leading technology providers to ensure our customers are always one step ahead in the AI landscape.
What competitive advantage does the Qualcomm AI Inference Suite bring to this platform, and how does it enhance AI performance and scalability?
The integration of the Qualcomm AI Inference Suite gives our platform a significant competitive edge. It offers a comprehensive set of enterprise-grade AI tools that accelerate inference across diverse use cases, ranging from chat applications and reasoning agents to code and image generation, as well as enterprise RAG applications. Overall, it provides a seamless integration, including Bring Your Own Model (BYOM). This cost-effective solution supports both Kubernetes and bare-metal container deployments, ensuring seamless integration with popular generative AI models, including free access to open-source options like Llama-3.3 70B and JAIS30B.
Can you share specific enterprise use cases where AI Playground is expected to drive significant impact, particularly in regulated industries like healthcare and finance?
Absolutely. In the healthcare sector, the AI Playground can develop patient care by enabling advanced diagnostic imaging, predictive analytics, and personalised treatment planning – all within a secure, compliant framework that protects sensitive data. For the finance industry, the platform offers powerful tools for fraud detection, risk management, and customer personalisation, driving efficiencies while ensuring regulatory compliance. Beyond these, other sectors such as manufacturing and logistics can also leverage the platform for predictive maintenance and operational optimisation, proving the versatility and impact of our solution across regulated and highly sensitive industries
How does Core42 plan to evolve AI Playground in the coming months—are there new features, partnerships, or expansion plans on the horizon?
Core42’s strategic partnership with Qualcomm has set a new benchmark in the AI landscape, marked by our earlier launch of Inference-as-a-Service (IaaS) powered by Qualcomm AI Inference Accelerators. The collaboration strengthened Core42’s AI capabilities, offering enterprises unprecedented efficiency and scalability through robust infrastructure and advanced AI solutions. Building on this momentum, the launch of the AI Playground is a foundational step toward continuous innovation. As we move forward, we plan to broaden our suite of tools and integrations, enhance automation features, and forge additional strategic partnerships. Through these initiatives, Core42 remains dedicated to evolving the AI Playground, ensuring it consistently offers optimal performance, efficiency, and a forward-thinking approach to meet the dynamic needs of industries embracing AI.
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