Core42 and Qualcomm Launch Compass 2.0: Next-Generation Enterprise AI Platform

Core42, Qualcomm launch Compass 2.0 to advance AI solutions

Image: Getty Images Core42, a subsidiary of G42 and provider of sovereign cloud services, AI infrastructure, and solutions, together with Qualcomm Technologies, announced the official release of Compass 2.0. The upgraded platform, which initially debuted in January earlier this year, has already processed 150 billion tokens. Powered by Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 Ultra inference accelerators, Compass 2.0 aims to set new benchmarks in energy efficiency, flexibility and cost-effectiveness for enterprises leveraging cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) workloads. The platform integrates Qualcomm's inference-as-a-service, offering seamless support for pre-trained models and scalable solutions within fully containerised environments. Core42's Compass expands API capabilties Designed to simplify AI model utilisation, Compass 2.0 expands its API capabilities to include a diverse range of optimised GenAI, embeddings, computer vision, and natural language processing models. Additions to the platform include JAIS, acclaimed as the world's leading Arabic large language model, alongside Azure OpenAI GPT-4 family models, broadening the scope for advanced AI applications. Kiril Evtimov, group CTO of G42 and CEO of Core42, highlighted the collaborative effort with Qualcomm Technologies, stating, "Our partnership drives transformative advancements in AI accessibility and performance. Compass 2.0 facilitates rapid deployment of AI innovations, ensuring seamless integration on an optimised inferencing architecture." Rashid Attar, VP of Cloud Computing at Qualcomm Technologies, expressed enthusiasm about the platform's potential impact, emphasising, "Compass 2.0 heralds a new era in Generative AI capabilities. "Through our continued collaboration with G42, we aim to empower organisations globally, enhancing data analytics precision and language comprehension across diverse sectors." The launch of Compass 2.0 signifies a significant stride towards democratising AI applications, promising enhanced efficiencies in personalised conversational agents, patient interaction systems, recommendation engines, and text-to-image solutions. Read: Core42, AIREV unveil OnDemand AI operating system

G42's Core42 launches Compass 2.0: A next-generation enterprise AI platform

ABU DHABI - Core42, a G42 Company and leading provider of sovereign cloud, AI infrastructure and services, and Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., a global leader in high performance at low power AI solutions, today announced the launch of Compass 2.0. The Compass platform was soft-launched in January 2024 and has successfully processed approximately 150 billion tokens since its inception. The Compass 2.0 offering is strengthened by Qualcomm® Cloud AI 100 Ultra inference accelerators and is designed to deliver industry-leading energy efficiency, portability, flexibility, and price performance for customers running modern AI workloads. Compass is designed to enable customers and partners to use a wide variety of pre-optimized GenAI, Embeddings, Computer Vision, and Natural Language Processing AI models easily through the Compass API. The API now includes Qualcomm's inference-as-a-service to support pre-trained models and fully containerized and scalable solutions. Additionally, this advanced platform provides Compass 2.0 users with access to many more open-source models, including JAIS, the world's most performant Arabic Large Language Model, Llama3, as well as Azure OpenAI GPT-4 family models. Compass also enables expert solutions and services from application specialists, unlocking the potential of GenAI for applications such as: Generation of human-like text for personalized multi-lingual conversational agents Creation of engagement and support assistants to provide 24/7 patient interaction and support Transformation of data into meaningful insights within recommendation systems that are compliant and deployed in a sovereign cloud Text-to-Image, Document processing (Translation, Transcription, and Summarization) Chat with Retrieval Augmented Generation systems Code Development and Debug Kiril Evtimov, Group CTO of G42 and CEO of Core42, said, "At G42, we collaborate with global technology leaders to deliver transformative capabilities to our customers, partners and the global community. Our joint efforts with Qualcomm Technologies on Compass 2.0 enable rapid deployment and seamless integration of many open-source AI models on an architecture optimized for inferencing." "Core42's Compass 2.0 revolutionizes the field of Generative AI. It enables easy access and deployment while maintaining high standards of privacy and customization. At Qualcomm Technologies, we look forward to continuing our work with G42 to provide high-performance access that elevates language understanding and data analytics to new heights. Through our joint efforts, we hope to empower organizations to enhance patient care, make informed financial decisions, and improve public services," said Rashid Attar, VP, Cloud Computing, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. Compass 2.0 is available now for initial deployment. For more information, please visit https://core42.ai/compassinferencing.html. -Ends- About G42 G42 is a technology holding group, a global leader in creating visionary artificial intelligence for a better tomorrow. Born in Abu Dhabi and operating worldwide, G42 champions AI as a powerful force for good across industries. From molecular biology to space exploration and everything in between, G42 realizes exponential possibilities, today. To know more visit www.g42.ai About Core42 Core42, a G42 company, empowers individuals, enterprises, and nations to unlock the full potential of AI through its comprehensive enablement capabilities. As a leading provider of sovereign cloud, AI infrastructure, and services, our mission is to accelerate the achievements of others and help them reach their most ambitious goals. For further information, visit www.core42.ai About Qualcomm Qualcomm is enabling a world where everyone and everything can be intelligently connected. Our one technology roadmap allows us to efficiently scale the technologies that launched the mobile revolution - including advanced connectivity, high-performance, low-power compute, on-device intelligence and more - to the next generation of connected smart devices across industries. Innovations from Qualcomm and our family of Snapdragon platforms will help enable cloud-edge convergence, transform industries, accelerate the digital economy, and revolutionize how we experience the world, for the greater good. Qualcomm Incorporated includes our licensing business, QTL, and the vast majority of our patent portfolio. Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated, operates, along with its subsidiaries, substantially all of our engineering, research and development functions, and substantially all of our products and services businesses, including our QCT semiconductor business. Snapdragon and Qualcomm branded products are products of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. and/or its subsidiaries. Qualcomm patented technologies are licensed by Qualcomm Incorporated. Qualcomm Cloud AI is a product of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., and/or its subsidiaries. Qualcomm is a trademark or registered trademark of Qualcomm Incorporated.