INFRAAI
GPU & Inference as a Service
The Sovereign AI Factory. Private inference endpoints and GPU compute, hosted in South Africa, billed in rand.
Learn more →Sovereign AI · Built in South Africa
Sovereign AI.
Built in South Africa.
Your data never leaves.
FirstCoreAI gives enterprises the compute, models, and engineering to run real AI workloads — without sending your data offshore, and without the unpredictable bills of foreign cloud.
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POPIA-aligned by design
SA-hosted inference
Rand-denominated
Built for Financial Services & Insurance Retail & FMCG Public Sector
Ask the AI Factory
This assistant runs on the AI Factory — an open-weight model on our own GPUs in Umhlanga. Nothing you type leaves South Africa.
Umhlanga, KZN
Where it runs
Blackwell-class
GPU cluster
6 live
Production endpoints
OpenAI-compatible
API surface
Physical compute we own and operate, inside FirstNet's data centre. Book a 60–90 minute tour →
— The wedge
Three things hyperscalers can't claim.
01
Your data stays home.
Inference runs on infrastructure we own and operate inside South Africa. No data leaving the country, no foreign jurisdiction reaching into it. POPIA-aligned from the ground up, not patched on afterwards.
02
Real compute, not a reseller badge.
We run a physical AI Factory — GPU nodes, open-weight models, and private inference endpoints. You get the performance of frontier AI where it counts, and the economics of self-hosted models where it doesn't.
03
Sitting inside a real data-centre business.
FirstCoreAI is a business unit of FirstNet — the data-centre, connectivity, and ISP arm of the First Technology Group. The AI Factory runs in FirstNet's data centres, on networks FirstNet operates. The same people who run the DC run the substrate the GPUs sit on — not a two-person startup that vanishes after the pilot.
— What we do
We cover the full stack, from the silicon up.
Four pillars. One platform. The infrastructure, the engineering, the creative layer, and the adoption work — all under one roof, all inside South Africa.
ENGINEAI
Custom AI Engineering
We build the thing that actually solves the problem: RAG pipelines, autonomous agents, document and call processing, fine-tuned models.
Learn more →STUDIOAI
Creative & Content AI
AI-generated video, voice, and copy at scale — when content is the workload, not the whole strategy.
Learn more →ENTERPRISEAI
Adoption & Enablement
Copilot and Microsoft 365 rollout, training, and governance. We make sure the tools actually get used.
Learn more →— The Factory, measured
Stress-tested. Measured, not promised.
These numbers come from the production AI Factory itself — measured on our own cluster, under real serving conditions.
~0.6s
Time to first token · chat & coding
Median from request to first streamed token on the chat and coding models — and still under a second during concurrent bursts.
271
Concurrent requests · peak tested
Sustained across the cluster at the peak of the full stress run.
0
Errors · across all stress tests
Every request in the stress-test suite completed cleanly, at every concurrency level tested.
— In production
Already running for South African enterprises.
965
Call recordings · Insurance
Automated processing of 965 call recordings into structured, searchable data — on infrastructure that kept every recording on local soil.
Unblocked
Model deployment · Retail group
GPU-optimised hosting that cleared a model-deployment bottleneck their internal team had been stuck on for months.
3
Workstreams · FMCG group
An AI programme spanning content, reporting, and a hybrid hosting architecture.
— The sovereign argument
The cheapest AI is the one that costs you your data.
Every prompt sent to a foreign API is a small export of your business — your customers, your contracts, your call recordings — into a jurisdiction you don't control. For most workloads, you don't need that exposure. You need a sovereign alternative that performs.
— Bring us a workload
Let's see what runs better on home soil.
Bring us a workload — a document pipeline, a call archive, a chatbot, a model you can't deploy. We'll show you what it looks like running sovereign.