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Core42

Infrastructure

G42's cloud and AI-infrastructure company: sovereign public cloud, private cloud and GPU capacity sold to governments and enterprises that need data residency, plus the professional services to run workloads on it.

Subsidiary of G42

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HeadquartersAbu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

StatusPrivate

Products

Selected offerings — the AI products recorded here, not the vendor's full catalogue.

• Core42 Sovereign Public Cloud Infrastructure service Sold on its own

  Public cloud built on Azure but operated under UAE data-sovereignty and security controls, for public-sector and regulated workloads that cannot leave the country.

• Core42 Signature Private Cloud Infrastructure service Sold on its own

  Single-tenant private cloud for governments and enterprises running classified or otherwise secret workloads, with sovereignty guarantees Core42 operates itself.

• Core42 Sovereign AI Cloud Infrastructure service Sold on its own

  Full-stack sovereign AI cloud platform unifying multi-accelerator compute (NVIDIA, AMD, Qualcomm, Cerebras, Microsoft) across 86K+ GPUs in sovereign data centers, AI-optimized storage, Kubernetes/SLURM orchestration, and Core42 Compass inference, for training, fine-tuning and production AI workloads.

Inside Core42 Sovereign AI Cloud

• Core42 Compass API service Included with the parent

  Unified inference layer within Core42 Sovereign AI Cloud: one API for 50+ models across 12 providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, Mistral, xAI, DeepSeek and others), with sovereign in-country deployment, guardrails, fine-tuning services and a Playground for prompt testing.

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both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; Core42's scale not recorded.3 of 5 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareFFalPrivateCore42 Signature Private Cloud and fal Serverless do comparable work on GPU cloud; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; scale not recorded for either.3 of 5 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareTATogether AIPrivate · $8.3BCore42 Signature Private Cloud and Together GPU Clusters do comparable work on GPU cloud; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; Core42's scale not recorded.2 of 5 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareRRunPodPrivateCore42 Sovereign AI Cloud and Serverless do comparable work on GPU cloud; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; scale not recorded for either.2 of 5 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareKEKakao EnterprisePrivateCore42 Sovereign AI Cloud and AI Insight do comparable work on GPU cloud; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; scale not recorded for either; ships developer tool and platform rather than the same layer.2 of 5 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareHFHugging FacePrivate · $4.5BCore42 Compass and Inference Providers both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; Core42's scale not recorded.2 of 5 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareSSenseTimePublic · $7.7BCore42 Sovereign AI Cloud and SenseScale SSP do comparable work on AI compute hardware and GPU cloud; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; Core42's scale not recorded.3 of 5 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareFAFireworks AIPrivate · $17.5BCore42 Compass and Fireworks Nexus both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; Core42's scale not recorded.2 of 5 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareNCNAVER CloudPrivateCore42 Compass and Papago Translation both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; scale not recorded for either.2 of 5 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareMModalPrivate · $466M raisedCore42 Sovereign AI Cloud and Modal do comparable work on GPU cloud; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; Core42's scale not recorded.2 of 5 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareIIntelPublic · $463.7BCore42 Sovereign AI Cloud and Intel Tiber AI Cloud do comparable work on AI compute hardware and GPU cloud; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; Core42's scale not recorded.3 of 5 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareTTenstorrentPrivate · $2.6BCore42 Sovereign AI Cloud and Tenstorrent Cloud do comparable work on GPU cloud; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; Core42's scale not recorded.3 of 5 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareOOllamaPrivate · $88M raisedCore42 Compass and Ollama Cloud both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; Core42's scale not recorded.1 of 5 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareHHeliconeAcquiredCore42 Compass and Helicone AI Gateway both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; Core42's scale not recorded; Helicone is acquired, with no independent scale.Shared product typeCompareAAlibabaPublic · $273.4BCore42 Sovereign AI Cloud and Alibaba Cloud Elastic GPU Service do comparable work on AI compute hardware and GPU cloud; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; Core42's scale not recorded.4 of 5 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareBBasetenPrivate · $13BCore42 Compass and Baseten Model APIs both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; Core42's scale not recorded.1 of 5 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareMModularAcquired ($3.1B deal)Core42 Compass and Modular Cloud both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; Core42's scale not recorded; Modular is acquired, with no independent scale.1 of 5 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareNNVIDIAPublic · $5.1TCore42 Sovereign AI Cloud and NVIDIA DGX Cloud do comparable work on AI compute hardware and GPU cloud; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; Core42's scale not recorded.4 of 5 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAAAxelera AIPrivate · $450M raisedCore42 Sovereign AI Cloud and Axelera AI Mini PC do comparable work on AI compute hardware; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; Core42's scale not recorded; ships developer tool and hardware rather than the same layer.2 of 5 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareAAMDPublic · $785.1BCore42 Sovereign AI Cloud and AMD Kria SOMs do comparable work on AI compute hardware; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; Core42's scale not recorded.3 of 5 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareDDatabricksPrivate · $190BCore42 Compass and Unity Gateway both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; Core42's scale not recorded.2 of 5 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareKKioxiaPublic · $177.9BCore42 Sovereign AI Cloud and KIOXIA CM9-V Series do comparable work on AI compute hardware; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; Core42's scale not recorded; ships hardware rather than the same layer.1 of 5 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareSSambaNovaPrivate · $11BCore42 Compass and SambaCloud both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; Core42's scale not recorded.2 of 5 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareSESamsung ElectronicsPublic · $1.2TCore42 Sovereign AI Cloud and Samsung Foundry HPC/AI Service do comparable work on AI compute hardware; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; Core42's scale not recorded.1 of 5 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareOOraclePublic · $454.4BCore42 Sovereign AI Cloud and OCI Compute for GPUs do comparable work on AI compute hardware and GPU cloud; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; Core42's scale not recorded.4 of 5 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareHHumainPrivateCore42 Sovereign Public Cloud and HUMAIN COMPUTE do comparable work on GPU cloud; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; scale not recorded for either.3 of 5 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareEElasticPublic · $10.2BCore42 Compass and Elastic Inference Service both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; Core42's scale not recorded; ships agent platform, application and 2 more rather than the same layer.2 of 5 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareDTDell TechnologiesPublic · $360.7BCore42 Sovereign AI Cloud and Dell Pro Max AI Desktop do comparable work on AI compute hardware; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; Core42's scale not recorded.2 of 5 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareTTencentPublic · $510.1BCore42 Signature Private Cloud and Tencent Cloud HAI do comparable work on GPU cloud; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; Core42's scale not recorded.3 of 5 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareNRNous ResearchPrivate · $70M raisedCore42 Compass and Nous Portal both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; Core42's scale not recorded.2 of 5 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareSSplunkAcquiredCore42 Sovereign Public Cloud and Splunk Enterprise Security do comparable work on data security; Core42's scale not recorded; Splunk is acquired, with no independent scale; ships application, developer tool and 1 more rather than the same layer.2 of 5 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareBBaiduPublic · $31.6BCore42 Sovereign Public Cloud and Baidu Baige AI Computing Platform do comparable work on GPU cloud; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; Core42's scale not recorded.3 of 5 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAAlphabet (Google)Public · $4.2TCore42 Compass and Cloud Translation both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; Core42's scale not recorded.4 of 5 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareHHuaweiPrivateCore42 Sovereign AI Cloud and Atlas 650E AI Server do comparable work on AI compute hardware; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; scale not recorded for either; ships developer tool and hardware rather than the same layer.2 of 5 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareMMicrosoftPublic · $3.7TCore42 Compass and Foundry Models both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; Core42's scale not recorded.3 of 5 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAAmazonPublic · $2.8TCore42 Compass and Amazon Bedrock both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; Core42's scale not recorded.3 of 5 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareANArista NetworksPublic · $246.4BCore42 Sovereign AI Cloud and 7060X5 Series do comparable work on AI compute hardware; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; Core42's scale not recorded; ships hardware rather than the same layer.1 of 5 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareSHSK HynixPublic · $874.5BCore42 Sovereign AI Cloud and CMM-DDR5 do comparable work on AI compute hardware; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; Core42's scale not recorded; ships hardware rather than the same layer.2 of 5 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareCCiscoPublic · $433.3BCore42 Sovereign Public Cloud and Cisco AI PODs for Collaboration both serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; Core42's scale not recorded; ships AI agent, application and 1 more rather than the same layer.4 of 5 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareCCyeraPrivate · $12BCore42 Sovereign Public Cloud and Cyera AI Security Platform do comparable work on data security; Core42's scale not recorded; ships application and platform rather than the same layer.1 of 5 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareMAMistral AIPrivate · $13.8BCore42 Sovereign Public Cloud and Mistral AI Cloud do comparable work on GPU cloud; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; Core42's scale not recorded.1 of 5 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareQQualcommPublic · $174.9BCore42 Sovereign AI Cloud and Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 Ultra both serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; Core42's scale not recorded; ships developer tool, hardware and 1 more rather than the same layer.2 of 5 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareVVercelPrivate · $9.3BCore42 Compass and Vercel AI Gateway both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; Core42's scale not recorded.2 of 5 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareDDataikuPrivate · $3.7BCore42 Compass and Dataiku LLM Mesh both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; Core42's scale not recorded.3 of 5 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareDDecartPrivate · $4BCore42 Compass and Cogito both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; Core42's scale not recorded.1 of 5 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareOOpenRouterPrivate · $1.3BCore42 Compass and OpenRouter both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; Core42's scale not recorded; ships developer tool and model API rather than the same layer.2 of 5 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareYYandexPublicCore42 Compass and Yandex Translate both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; scale not recorded for either.2 of 5 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareFFortinetPublic · $124.8BCore42 Signature Private Cloud and FortiAIGate do comparable work on data security; Core42's scale not recorded.1 of 5 capabilitiesShared product typeComparePPalantirPublic · $426.5BCore42 Signature Private Cloud and Palantir Apollo do comparable work on data security; Core42's scale not recorded.2 of 5 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareHRHorizon RoboticsPublic · $8.8BCore42 Sovereign AI Cloud and Journey 6 Series do comparable work on AI compute hardware; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; Core42's scale not recorded; ships hardware and platform rather than the same layer.2 of 5 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareHTHailo TechnologiesAcquired ($340M deal)Core42 Sovereign AI Cloud and Hailo-10H do comparable work on AI compute hardware; Core42's scale not recorded; Hailo Technologies is acquired, with no independent scale; ships developer tool and hardware rather than the same layer.2 of 5 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareBBroadcomPublic · $1.7TCore42 Signature Private Cloud and Broadcom custom silicon both serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; Core42's scale not recorded; ships hardware and platform rather than the same layer.1 of 5 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareALAI21 LabsPrivate · $1.4BCore42 Compass and AI21 Intelligent Gateway both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; Core42's scale not recorded.2 of 5 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareZZscalerPublic · $30.5BCore42 Sovereign Public Cloud and Zscaler AI Asset Management (AI-SPM) do comparable work on data security; Core42's scale not recorded.1 of 5 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareHHiddenLayerPrivate · $50M raisedCore42 Sovereign Public Cloud and Agent Harness Security do comparable work on data security; Core42's scale not recorded; ships application and platform rather than the same layer.1 of 5 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompare

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Total funding

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Not separately funded; a wholly owned G42 company with no disclosed raise.

Employees

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The About page states '1100+ AI & Cloud Experts', which is a headcount of a role rather than of the company, so it is not recorded as employees. No total is published.

Founded

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Checked core42.ai's home, About, Contact and terms pages on 2026-09-05; no founding year is stated. G42 formed it by combining earlier group units, and no page dates that.

Description

Official documentation · 5 Sep 2026

Core42's own About page, fetched 2026-09-05: '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...' Its product nav lists Sovereign AI Cloud, Sovereign Public Cloud and Signature Private Cloud.

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