Cerebras

Cerebras Systems is a semiconductor and AI computing company founded in 2016 by Andrew Feldman, Gary Lauterbach, and others, and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. The company focuses on building specialized hardware and software for AI workloads, particularly large-scale neural network training and inference.

Cerebras's primary product is the Wafer-Scale Engine (WSE), a processor built on a single silicon wafer rather than individual dies, giving it significantly more cores and on-chip memory than conventional GPUs. The company also offers the CS-2 and CS-3 systems, which house the WSE chips, and provides cloud-based access to its hardware through its Cerebras Cloud platform. Customers have included national laboratories such as Argonne and Lawrence Livermore, as well as pharmaceutical and research organizations running large AI models.

Cerebras raised approximately $720 million across multiple funding rounds, including a $250 million Series F in 2021. The company filed for an IPO in 2024, seeking to go public on the Nasdaq under the ticker CBRS, though the offering faced regulatory scrutiny related to a major customer. As of 2024, the company employs several hundred people and has positioned itself as an alternative to Nvidia's GPU-based AI infrastructure.