OpenAI introduced Wednesday that it had reached a multi-year settlement with AI chipmaker Cerebras. The chipmaker will ship 750 megawatts of compute to the AI big beginning this yr and persevering with by the yr 2028, Cerebras said.
The deal is value over $10 billion, a supply acquainted with the small print advised TechCrunch. Reuters additionally reported the deal measurement.
Each firms mentioned that the deal is about delivering quicker outputs for OpenAI’s clients. In a blog post, OpenAI mentioned these techniques would velocity responses that at present require extra time to course of. Andrew Feldman, co-founder and CEO of Cerebras, mentioned simply as “broadband remodeled the web, real-time inference will remodel AI.”
Cerebras has been round for over a decade however its star has risen considerably for the reason that launch of ChatGPT in 2022 and the AI growth that adopted. The corporate claims its techniques, constructed with its chips designed for AI use, are quicker than GPU-based techniques (similar to Nvidia’s choices).
Cerebras filed for an IPO in 2024 however since then has pushed it again quite a few instances. Within the meantime, the corporate has continued to raise large amounts of money. On Tuesday, it was reported that the corporate was in talks to boost one other billion {dollars} at a $22 billion valuation. It’s additionally value noting that OpenAI’s CEO, Sam Altman, is already an investor in the company and that OpenAI as soon as thought-about buying it.
“OpenAI’s compute technique is to construct a resilient portfolio that matches the correct techniques to the correct workloads,” mentioned Sachin Katti of OpenAI within the firm’s put up. “Cerebras provides a devoted low-latency inference answer to our platform. Which means quicker responses, extra pure interactions, and a stronger basis to scale real-time AI to many extra folks.”
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