13 Facts About Cerebras

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Cerebras Systems is an American artificial intelligence company with offices in Sunnyvale and San Diego, California, Toronto, Tokyo and Bangalore, India.

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Cerebras was founded in 2015 by Andrew Feldman, Gary Lauterbach, Michael James, Sean Lie and Jean-Philippe Fricker.

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In May 2016, Cerebras secured $27 million in series A funding led by Benchmark, Foundation Capital and Eclipse Ventures.

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In November 2018, Cerebras closed its series D round with $88 million, making the company a unicorn.

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In November 2019, Cerebras closed its series E round with over $270 million for a valuation of $2.

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In November 2021, Cerebras announced that it had raised an additional $250 million in Series F funding, valuing the company at over $4 billion.

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Cerebras Wafer Scale Engine is a single, wafer-scale integrated processor that includes compute, memory and interconnect fabric.

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In June 2022, Cerebras set a record for the largest AI models ever trained on one device.

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Cerebras said that for the first time ever, a single CS-2 system with one Cerebras wafer can train models with up to 20 billion parameters.

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In September 2022, Cerebras announced that it can patch its chips together to create what would be the largest-ever computing cluster for AI computing.

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In March 2022, Cerebras announced that the Company deployed its CS-2 system in the Houston facilities of TotalEnergies, its first publicly disclosed customer in the energy sector.

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Cerebras announced that it has deployed a CS-2 system at nference, a startup that uses natural language processing to analyze massive amounts of biomedical data.

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In May 2022, Cerebras announced that the National Center for Supercomputing Applications has deployed the Cerebras CS-2 system in their HOLL-I supercomputer.

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