September at Cerebras: Scaling fast with new funding, data center & more

📈 Series G Funding: $1.1B raised at a record $8.1B valuation 🏗️ Meet OKC: New Oklahoma City data center with 44+ Exaflops 🎟️ Cerebras @ AI Infra Summit: keynote, announcements & more 🚀 K2-Think on Cerebras: MBZUAI & G42's new reasoning model 👀 And More... podcasts, articles, events and social!

View in browser > September at Cerebras: Scaling fast with new funding, data center & more   📈 Series G Funding: $1.1B raised at a record $8.1B valuation 🏗️ Meet OKC: New Oklahoma City data center with 44+ Exaflops 🎟️ Cerebras @ AI Infra Summit: Keynote, announcements & more 🚀 K2-Think on Cerebras: MBZUAI & G42's new reasoning model 👀 And More... podcasts, articles, events and social! Series G Funding Today, we announced an oversubscribed $1.1B Series G funding round led by Fidelity Management & Research Company and Atreides Management. The round included significant participation from Tiger Global, Valor Equity Partners, and 1789 Capital, as well as existing investors Altimeter, Alpha Wave Global, and Benchmark — valuing Cerebras at $8.1B.   Cerebras' 20x AI performance advantage over NVIDIA GPUs has fueled record demand for real-time use cases like code generation, reasoning, and agentic AI. This investment enables us to scale even faster through: Breakthrough AI processors, systems, and supercomputers Expansion of U.S. manufacturing and global data center footprint Growth of Cerebras Inference and Training to meet explosive demand Connect to learn how Cerebras can 10x your AI outcomes in 2025 and beyond. Learn More Meet OKC On September 22nd, we held a ribbon-cutting in Oklahoma City at the grand opening of our newest data center, featuring:   🔹 44+ Exaflops of AI compute 🔹 20-40x faster on AI-native workloads than GPUs 🔹 Direct-to-chip water cooling for unmatched efficiency 🔹 Tornado and seismic shielded with triple-redundant power This moment in Oklahoma City builds on nearly a decade of relentless innovation. We’ve transformed AI infrastructure across North America—from early deployments in California to high-capacity builds in Dallas and Minneapolis, and additional sites across the continent—raising the bar for performance, reliability, and sustainability. Read Our Blog Cerebras @ AI Infra Summit At AI Infra Summit, Cerebras had a major presence—anchored by CTO Sean Lie’s keynote on why wafer-scale inference is the path to real-time AI—plus a packed showfloor with demos, talks, and interactions.   We unveiled our Cerebras API Certification Partner Program, bringing Cerebras' world record speed to Dataiku, Vercel, Portkey, True Foundry, and existing partners Hugging Face and OpenRouter.   We also announced streamlined public-sector procurement via Carahsoft and a DoD Tradewinds listing, expanding access to Cerebras industry-leading AI infrastructure for public sector and defense organizations.   Connect With Us K2-Think on Cerebras MBZUAI and G42 unveiled K2-Think—the leading 32B-parameter open-source reasoning model—running on Cerebras Inference at a world record 2,000 tokens per second. K2-Think outperforms far larger models while cutting latency and cost. It’s designed for chain-of-thought reasoning, agentic planning, and math/code problem-solving, and is accessible via API with a simple endpoint swap.   Learn More And More...   LISTEN: Our Best Podcast Yet – Andrew Feldman, Co-Founder and CEO joined Andy Price on the Artisanal Podcast. This episode was a masterclass in relentless innovation and the mindset of a “professional David going after Goliath.” Learn about the passion, focus, and relentless grind that enabled us to build the world’s only wafer-scale chip — and the world’s fastest AI inference. Watch now!   LEARN:  What is GPT-OSS? Everything you need to know in 2 minutes MoE Guide Everything you need to scale Mixture of Experts   JOIN US:  October 6-8: AlphaSummit 2025 (New York, NY) October 13-17: GITEX (Dubai, UAE) November 10-13: Web Summit (Lisbon, Portugal) November 16-21: Supercomputing '25 (St. Louis, MO) December 1-5: AWS re:Invent (Las Vegas, NV) December 2-7: NeurIPS (San Diego, CA) Cerebras Systems, 1237 E Arques Ave, Sunnyvale, CA 94085 Unsubscribe Manage preferences