Udu Technologies, a Nigerian Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) cloud and infrastructure platform, has partnered with South Korean AI infrastructure company Baro AI to expand the supply of high-performance GPUs to African governments, businesses and research institutions.
GPUs are specialised chips that can perform many calculations simultaneously, making them well suited to training and running AI models. Unlike conventional computer processors, GPUs can handle the large volumes of parallel computation required by modern AI systems, making access to them a critical part of building AI infrastructure.
Signed Wednesday, September 9, at the Korea-Africa Economic Cooperation (KOAFEC) Ministerial Conference in Seoul, the deal gives UduTech access to Baro AI’s multi-GPU Poseidon servers and broadens the range of hardware available through its AGH Cloud platform.
Africa has less than 1% of global data centre capacity and an even smaller share of the GPU infrastructure needed to run AI systems. That gap leaves governments, businesses and researchers competing for limited computing power, potentially slowing the continent’s ability to deploy AI at scale.
Originally published by TechCabal.