[jsheard]

Is anyone actually using those WSEs in anger yet? They're on their third generation now, but as far as I can tell the discussion of each generation consists of "Cerebras announces new giant chip" and then radio silence until they announce the next giant chip.

[rthnbgrredf]

Problem is Software. You can put out a XYZ trillion monster chip that beats anything hardware wise, but it is going nowhere if you don't have the tooling and massive community (like Nvidia has) to actually do some real A.I. stuff.

[IshKebab]

Unlikely. They cost so much that nobody is going to do research on them - at best it's porting existing models. And they're so different to GPUs that the porting effort is going to be enormous.

They also suffer from the global optimisation problem for layout of calculations so compile time is going to be insane.

Their WSE technology is also already obsolete - Tesla's chip does it in a much more logical and cost effective way.

[JonChesterfield]

They sold some. Not strictly speaking the same as using any but there's a decent chance some code is running on the machines.

[shrubble]

The Cerebras-2 is at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center. Not sure if they ordered a 3.