G42 Core42 Launches AI Platform Compass 2.0

Core42, a G42 Company and a leading provider of sovereign cloud, AI infrastructure, and services, in collaboration with Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., a global leader in high-performance low-power AI solutions, has announced the launch of Compass 2.0. Initially soft-launched in January 2024, the Compass platform has successfully processed approximately 150 billion tokens to date.

Enhanced Features of Compass 2.0

The Compass 2.0 offering is bolstered by Qualcomm® Cloud AI 100 Ultra inference accelerators. This upgrade is designed to provide industry-leading energy efficiency, portability, flexibility, and price performance for customers managing modern AI workloads.

Versatile AI Model Integration

The Compass platform is engineered to facilitate easy access to a diverse range of pre-optimized GenAI, Embeddings, Computer Vision, and Natural Language Processing AI models through the Compass API. The API now incorporates Qualcomm’s inference-as-a-service to support pre-trained models and offers fully containerized and scalable solutions. Furthermore, Compass 2.0 provides users with access to numerous open-source models, including JAIS, the world's most performant Arabic Large Language Model, Llama3, and Azure OpenAI GPT-4 family models.

Applications and Services

Compass 2.0 leverages cutting-edge GenAI technology to offer expert solutions and services across a range of applications. It facilitates the generation of human-like text for personalized, multi-lingual conversational agents and creates advanced engagement and support assistants capable of 24/7 patient interaction and assistance. Additionally, Compass 2.0 transforms data into actionable insights within recommendation systems, all while ensuring compliance and deployment within a sovereign cloud environment. It supports text-to-image generation, document processing including translation, transcription, and summarization, and enhances interactions through Chat with Retrieval Augmented Generation systems. Moreover, it streamlines code development and debugging, making it a comprehensive tool for modern technological needs.

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.

Availability and Further Information

Compass 2.0 is now available for initial deployment. For more details, please visit https://core42.ai/compassinferencing.html.