African technology company Cassava Technologies has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Sand Technologies, a global enterprise AI solutions company described as a key player in Africa’s emerging artificial intelligence (AI) ecosystem.
The strategic partnership aims to enhance the delivery of AI solutions and GPU-as-a-service (GPUaas) across the African continent, making AI solutions more accessible to African businesses. It was announced at the Global AI Summit on Africa in Kigali, Rwanda.
Sand Technologies is an enterprise AI solutions company supporting the telecommunications, water, energy, healthcare and insurance industries in the Americas, Europe, Asia and Africa. It will use Cassava’s advanced NVIDIA-powered GPU capabilities to build and deploy AI solutions worldwide. The two companies say they will identify pilot use cases and collaborate in co-creating and distributing AI-powered solutions that leverage GPUs.
As more businesses across Africa seek to harness the potential of AI, the demand for powerful GPU processing capabilities is increasing. Thus, as Hardy Pemhiwa, President and Group CEO of Cassava Technologies, explains: “By providing Sand Technologies with access to Cassava’s GPU solutions, we are not only enabling them to develop advanced AI solutions for their clients across industries but also expanding Cassava’s own footprint into these industries."
He continues: "Positioning ourselves as a provider of GPU-as-a-service means we can offer African businesses the cost-effective, scalable processing solutions they need to compete in an AI-driven world.”
This strategic partnership follows Cassava’s recent announcement, reported here in late March, of its plans to build Africa’s first AI factory to give African businesses, governments, and researchers access to cutting-edge AI computing capacity.
