# Cassava Technologies: physical AI company

Canonical ID: `b79ed8f0-da28-4687-8d87-526179297cf1`

## Key facts

- **Type:** GPU cloud (GPU-as-a-Service); sovereign-adjacent
- **Headquarters:** Johannesburg, South Africa (pan-African)
- **Compute:** NVIDIA GPUs (first ~3,000 in South Africa); ~12,000 more planned across Africa
- **Partner status:** Africa's first NVIDIA Cloud Partner
- **Primary accelerator:** NVIDIA GPUs
- **GPU fleet (verified):** ~3,000 GPUs (South Africa)
- **GPU fleet (announced):** ~15,000 planned across Africa (~$700M)

- **Slug:** cassava-technologies
- **HQ:** Johannesburg, South Africa

## Models

_No models registered._

## Supplies to

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## Common questions

### What is Cassava Technologies?

Cassava Technologies (founded by Strive Masiyiwa, spun out of Econet) is a pan-African tech group and Africa's first NVIDIA Cloud Partner, running GPU-as-a-service plus AI-as-a-service from its own AI-factory capacity. It deployed a first ~3,000 NVIDIA GPUs in South Africa in 2025 and launched GPUaaS commercially in November 2025, with ~12,000 more GPUs planned across Egypt, Nigeria, Kenya and Morocco in a roughly $700M program. It is sovereign-adjacent but privately owned.

### What does Cassava Technologies make?

Cassava Technologies has no robot models recorded on the DEPLOY registry.

### Where is Cassava Technologies headquartered?

Cassava Technologies is headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa.

### Is Cassava Technologies a top robotics company?

On DEPLOY's intelligence score, which blends verified deployments, funding, hiring, media, safety, and IP signals, Cassava Technologies ranks in roughly the top 100% of companies tracked by the registry.


## Sources (2)

1. **ATF 2025: Cassava launches Africa's first GPU-as-a-service** · https://www.connectingafrica.com/ai/atf-2025-cassava-launches-africa-s-first-gpu-as-a-service · 2025-11-01
2. **NVIDIA and Cassava launch $700m AI data centre rollout across Africa** · https://www.intelligentcio.com/africa/2025/11/27/nvidia-and-cassava-technologies-launch-700m-ai-data-centre-rollout-across-africa/ · 2025-11-27

## The verified answers

- [Which companies have the most robots deployed](/which-companies-have-the-most-robots-deployed.md)
- [Which operators run the most robots](/which-operators-run-the-most-robots.md)
- [Which robot operators cover the most countries](/which-robot-operators-cover-the-most-countries.md)

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