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Cerebras

AI-chip maker known for wafer-scale processors the size of a dinner plate, pitched as an alternative to Nvidia GPUs particularly for fast model inference.

5 entries · March 2023 – May 2026

Cerebras Systems is an AI-chip maker, founded in 2015 and led by Andrew Feldman, known for an unusual design: wafer-scale processors roughly the size of a dinner plate, each carrying trillions of transistors, pitched as an alternative to Nvidia GPUs particularly for fast model inference. It has grown quickly on the back of a large inference deal with OpenAI and other customers, but its revenue has been heavily concentrated — filings disclosed that most of it came from a small number of clients linked to the United Arab Emirates. After withdrawing an IPO in 2025, it listed on Nasdaq in May 2026 at a valuation of roughly $56 billion, making it one of the clearest public-market tests of whether investors will price a challenger to Nvidia on a comparable scale.

Category
Compute, chips & infrastructure
Founded
2015
HQ
Sunnyvale, US
Funding
~$56bn valuation at its 2026 Nasdaq IPO
Key people
Andrew Feldman

Tracks

  • Compute & infrastructure 4
  • Money & business 2
  • Models & capabilities 1
  • Open weights & ecosystem 1