Core42, a G42 company and provider of sovereign cloud, and AI infrastructure and services, has announced the launch of Compass 2.0 in partnership with Qualcomm Technologies. 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-optimised generative AI, 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 containerised and scalable solutions.
The advanced platform provides Compass 2.0 users with access to open-source models, including JAIS, the world’s highest performing Arabic Large Language Model, Llama3, as well as Azure OpenAI GPT-4 family models. Compass also enables expert solutions and services from application specialists, allowing the potential of GenAI for a range of applications.
The applications include the generation of human-like text for personalised multi-lingual conversational agents; the creation of engagement and support assistants to provide 24/7 patient interaction and support, and the transformation of data into meaningful insights within recommendation systems that are compliant and deployed in a sovereign cloud. The applications also include text-to-image and document processing; chat with retrieval augmented generation systems, and code development and debugging.
Kiril Evtimov, Group Chief Technology Officer 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 optimised for inferencing.”
Rashid Attar, VP, Cloud Computing, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc, said: “Core42’s Compass 2.0 revolutionises the field of Generative AI. It enables easy access and deployment while maintaining high standards of privacy and customisation. 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 organisations to enhance patient care, make informed financial decisions, and improve public services.”
