Together AI’s Chennai bet leads another AI compute land grab

Friday, August 14, 2026 · 6 min

AI Daily Briefing cover art

Together AI is anchoring a new India AI-factory push, with Times of India’s Supriya Roy reporting L&T’s mega Chennai order; Cerebras says capacity tops 600 MW, while Microsoft Research’s MindTopo benchmark finds VLMs falter on spatial planning.

Listen

Listen to the audio episode

Read the episode transcript

Show notes

In this episode

L&T bags ‘mega’ AI infra order from Together AI — Times of India
L&T bags ‘mega’ AI infra order from Together AI Edition IN English Sign In - News - City News - bengaluru News - L&T bags ‘mega’ AI infra order from Together AI Trending # L&T bags ‘mega’ AI infra order from Together AI Comments Share AA +Text Size - Small - Medium - Large A worker monitors the traffic outside a data centre construction site in Johor state, which has become Southeast…
Cerebras: Data Center Capacity Tops 600 MW As Manufacturing Capacity Targets More Than 10x Expansion — Pulse2
Cerebras: Data Center Capacity Tops 600 MW As Manufacturing Capacity Targets More Than 10x Expansion Cerebras: Data Center Capacity Tops 600 MW As Manufacturing Capacity Targets More Than 10x Expansion Cerebras Systems is rapidly expanding the physical infrastructure supporting its AI inference business, with more than 600 megawatts of data center capacity now live or under contract for…
MindTopo reveals VLMs' spatial reasoning abilities - Microsoft Research — Microsoft Research Blog
MindTopo reveals VLMs' spatial reasoning abilities - Microsoft Research Return to Blog Home ## Microsoft Research Blog ## At a glance - MindTopo is a new benchmark for testing topological reasoning in AI, evaluating whether multimodal models can understand concepts such as connectivity, enclosure, order, separation, and knots. - The benchmark measures both reasoning and planning, testing not…