Start up Profile

Headquartered in Los Altos, California, Cerebras is a stealth-mode start-up backed by premier venture capitalists and industry leading technologists. Cerebras is a computer systems company dedicated to accelerating deep learning. Cerebras Systems is a team of pioneering computer architects, computer scientists, and deep learning researchers. They have come together to build a new class of computer system that accelerates artificial intelligence by orders of magnitude beyond the current state of the art. Their investors: Benchmark, Foundation Capital, Eclipse, Coatue, VY Capital and Altimeter. The Cerebras software stack is designed to meet users where they are, integrating with open source ML frameworks like TensorFlow and PyTorch. Their software makes cluster-scale compute resources available to users with today's tools. Their salient features: Train AI models in a fraction of time, effortlessly - Provides faster time to solution, with cluster-scale resources on a single chip and with full utilization; Unlock new techniques and models - Runs at full utilization with tensors of any shapes, fat, square and thin, dense and sparse, enabling researchers to explore novel network architectures and optimization techniques; Exploit model and data parallelism while staying on-chip - Provides flexibility for parallel execution, supports model parallelism via layer-pipeline out of the box; Design extraordinarily sparse networks - Translates sparsity in model and data into performance, via a vast array of programmable cores and flexible interconnect.

The company received HPCwire 2022 Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards - 2022.