Cerebras Systems vs OpenAI
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Wafer-scale AI chip maker with WSE-3 (4T transistors). Founded 2015, $23B valuation, ~$2.9B total funding. $10B+ deal with OpenAI. IPO expected Q2 2026 (CBRS).
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Cerebras Systems is an AI hardware company founded in 2015 by Andrew Feldman, Gary Lauterbach, Michael James, Sean Lie, and Jean-Philippe Fricker, headquartered in Los Altos, California. The company designs the world's largest AI processor, the Wafer-Scale Engine (WSE-3), containing 4 trillion transistors and 900,000 AI-optimized cores on a single wafer-sized chip with 44GB on-chip SRAM.
GPT-5 and o3 model family at $25B+ ARR; $840B post-money valuation (Feb 2026 round); ChatGPT 1B+ users; largest private fundraise in history ($110B). Competing with Anthropic Claude 4, Google Gemini 3, Meta Llama 4.
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OpenAI is a San Francisco-based artificial intelligence company developing and deploying large-scale AI systems — including GPT-4o, o1 reasoning models, DALL-E 3 image generation, Sora video generation, and the Whisper speech recognition model — through the ChatGPT consumer product and OpenAI API for developers and enterprise customers. Founded in 2015 as a nonprofit by Sam Altman, Elon Musk, Greg Brockman, and others and restructured into a capped-profit company, OpenAI raised $157 billion in total funding including a $6.6 billion round in October 2024 at a $157 billion valuation and a $40 billion round from SoftBank in 2025, generating $3.7 billion in annualized revenue in 2024 with 400 million weekly ChatGPT users.
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