Andrew Feldman on Building a Chip 58x Larger Than Nvidia's
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Jul 13
Andrew Feldman on Building a Chip 58x Larger Than Nvidia's
Andrew Feldman on Building a Chip 58x Larger Than Nvidia's

Sourcery
Jul 13
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Andrew Feldman, Co-Founder and CEO of Cerebras Systems, joins Molly O'Shea at
the RAISE Summit in Paris.
Recorded 2 months after Cerebras went public at a $56B valuation and popped to
roughly $95B on its first day, this conversation covers the $20B+ OpenAI deal,
why inference is the new battleground, the state of the AI data center
build-out, and Feldman's take on the circular deals reshaping the industry.
We also get into what it means to create 1,000 millionaires, how co-design
between hardware and software actually works, data centers in space, and why
Feldman thinks AI could mean the next generation never knows anyone who dies of
cancer.
Cerebras (Nasdaq: CBRS) builds the WSE-3, a single wafer-scale chip with 4
trillion transistors and 900,000 cores, and the CS-3 system it powers.
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Summit mini-series in Paris, France happen.
Chapters below.
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(00:00) Andrew Feldman, Co-Founder & CEO at Cerebras Systems
(00:49) Why hardware suddenly became the coolest industry in tech
(01:51) What changed at Raise AI Summit
(03:01) Inside the $20 billion Cerebras - OpenAI deal
(05:50) What actually changes two months after an IPO
(06:32) Turning 1,000 employees into millionaires
(07:52) Staying sane during an AI gold rush
(10:44) Life after the IPO plateau
(11:45) The truth about the global data center shortage
(12:56) Why data centers are borrowing jet engines for power
(14:44) Are data centers really headed to space?
(15:37) The shift to designing chips and software together
(17:39) The biggest misconception about co-designing chips and software
(18:31) Inside SpaceX's multi-billion dollar AI deals
(20:06) NVIDIA's playbook for locking out competitors
(20:54) The hidden cost behind free tokens
(22:52) Andrew's response to Karp's sovereign AI thesis
(24:18) AI's biggest win might be curing cancer
(26:50) Peptides and biohacking
(28:00) How AI could finally fix the broken education problem
(29:46) The mentors who shaped Andrew Feldman's career
Highlights
Highlights
In this conversation recorded at the RAISE Summit in Paris, Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman discusses the company's recent IPO, a major hardware deal with OpenAI, and the shifting dynamics of the AI industry. He shares his perspective on the critical importance of inference, the challenges of building AI data centers, and the need for hardware-software co-design.
Chapters
Chapters
Introduction
00:00The $20B+ OpenAI Deal
05:00Why Inference is the New Battleground
10:00The State of the AI Data Center Build-Out
15:00Circular Deals Reshaping the Industry
20:00Creating 1,000 Millionaires
25:00Co-Design Between Hardware and Software
30:00Transcript
Transcript
Andrew Feldman: The demand for AI has outpaced everybody's expectation, everybody's forecast. And so everybody's chasing, they're chasing chips, they're chasing memory, or they're chasing data centers. OpenAI. We announced in January a huge partnership, on...
