Partners with company to gain access to boosted storage, security and data communication backbone
Multinet CEO Adnan Zaidi and World Context CEO Sherdil Ali Khan announce a partnership. — WORLD CONTEXT
A Pakistani startup focused on connecting local industry with the robotics sector of the United States has entered a partnership to boost its data library.
According to a press release issued today by World Context, a startup building a data supply chain between local factory floors and the US robotics industry, it partnered with Multinet Pakistan to support the infrastructure behind its “growing library of real-world visual data”.
The press release said the collaboration paired the former’s “on-the-ground data collection” with the latter’s “secure, enterprise-grade cloud and data center infrastructure”, which it said was a part of CEO Sherdil Ali Khan’s push to position Pakistan inside what he called the “superintelligence supply chain” — the stack of compute, data, models and applications that intelligent machines are built on, and one that has so far run almost entirely through American data infrastructure.
“World Context is building a physical data layer atop legacy Pakistani industry & infrastructure. We aim to collate the largest computer vision datasets that the country has ever produced. Data is delicate and cumbersome; it must be stored and transited deliberately and with scientific protocol. Frontier superintelligence laboratories in the United States and other countries require a high standard of data hygiene across their supply chains,” Khan said.
He added that Multinet, as a “proprietor and industry leader of such infrastructure”, complemented the startup’s operations.
“We will lean on them for bandwidth and networking as we continue to deploy sensors and to map local industry. Context is a relatively new venture but one that is building deep foundations within the communications-data frame that backbones the country,” the press release quoted him as saying.
Multinet Pakistan CEO Adnan Zaidi said that the next generation of intelligent systems would depend on access to high-quality data, resilient infrastructure and the ability to securely move and manage that data at scale.
“Our partnership with World Context represents an important step in connecting Pakistan to this emerging global value chain. At Multinet, we see our role extending beyond connectivity to providing the secure and reliable infrastructure that enables organisations to build, process, and exchange the data powering the technologies of tomorrow. We are proud to support World Context in connecting Pakistan’s real-world data capabilities with the global robotics and AI ecosystem.”
He said Multinet would provide the storage, security and data communication backbone needed to process and deliver World Context’s datasets to robotics companies and research teams in the US and elsewhere, backed by Multinet’s fibre network and existing role as an infrastructure partner to Pakistan’s “leading cellular operators and internet service providers”.