… But CNBC reports that the chipmaker has also announced seven multibillion-dollar investments in publicly traded companies, most recently deals to invest up to $3.2 billion in glassmaker Corning and up to $2.1 billion in data center operator IREN. …
… Puklowski says the new chips will generate 600 to 700 tokens per second, versus about 250 tokens per second for GPUs. General Compute has $300 million of the company’s SN50 chips on order and says it will be the first neocloud deploying them. …
… The Cerebras team was left with trial and error in which “we destroyed an enormous number of chips” and an enormous amount of cash. But without functional packaging, the chip was useless. …
… Musk's version of a neocloud is more ambitious, as you might expect. Some of the data centers might be in space — at least by 2035, if things go according to plan. xAI will be making its own chips at the Terafab , which will take away some but not all of Nvidia's pricing power. …
… Cerebras had hoped to go public in 2024 but was delayed due to a federal review of an investment from Abu Dhabi-based cloud provider G42, which was and still is, the chip company says a major customer. …
… Cerebras' chips, designed for training and successfully being manufactured by TSMC, the world's largest contract chip manufacturer, turned out to be even better for inference -- running AI models to generate responses, rather than teaching them in the first place. …
