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Cerebras AI Lands A Whale As It Prepares To Go Public

by Karl Freund | Jan 15, 2026 | In the News

Cerebras, famous for being the only AI company with a full wafer-scale chip, has landed OpenAI, its first major US-based hyperscaler. Prior to this deal, Cerebras has been successful securing investments and system commitments from a relatively small number of...

Nvidia Leapfrogs Google And AMD With Vera Rubin

by Karl Freund | Jan 7, 2026 | In the News

Its got to be tough being an Nvidia competitor. You think you are close to catching up, perhaps even taking the lead, and then, bang! Nvidia brings out yet another latest and greatest. This year brings perhaps the biggest generational change ever witnessed in Nvidia,...

IBM Is Positioned To Lead In Quantum Computing

by Karl Freund | Dec 23, 2025 | In the News

In the world of quantum computing, some of the world’s most important tech giants are striving to achieve a permanent advantage over classical computing, solving problems that simply cannot be solved using any number of classical computers. A bevy of start-ups are...

My 2026 AI Predictions Have A Few Surprises

by Karl Freund | Dec 3, 2025 | In the News

OK, I haven’t done this in a while; no excuse other than laziness. But here are ten concrete, defensible predictions for AI in 2026, with a bias toward things that materially matter for infra, enterprises, and policy. 1. Agentic AI moves from demos to staffed “digital...

Google AI Shot Heard Globally; Another Shoe Is About To Drop

by Karl Freund | Nov 25, 2025 | In the News

The AI sphere is abuzz lately with news and rumors that the latest Google TPU, Ironwood, is powering the Gemini3 model, outpacing OpenAI on many metrics including intelligence and performance. Now, The Information, echoed by Bloomberg and CNBC, is reporting that...

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OpenAI’s Deep Research Demands More Hardware, Not Less

by Karl Freund | March 4, 2025 | In the News | 0 Comments

Discussions about Deep Seek’s impact on Nvidia is everywhere. Yesterday, I heard an investor on CNBC’s "Fast Money" program pontificate that Deep Seek and its disruptive technology mean that “Nobody needs an Nvidia H100 anymore,” much less a Blackwell. I struggle to...

How To Run Large AI Models On An Edge Device

by Karl Freund | July 10, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

It can be done, but it requires the edge device vendor to work to optimize the model. A hybrid approach can also extend the applicability of LLMs by combining Cloud and Edge processing. When most people think of Artificial Intelligence (AI), they imagine a berserk...

Intel’s New Chips Focus On AI

by Karl Freund | July 6, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

Today, Intel launched and disclosed new technologies across its portfolio of processors, with special emphasis on enhanced AI capabilities. Unlike its many competitors, who either produce a CPU, a GPU, an FPGA or an AI-specific accelerator, Intel’s strategy is “all of...

IBM Teams With AMD For Cloud AI Acceleration

by Karl Freund | November 19, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

This could be quite telling, as IBM had previously been using Nvidia for it’s internal cloud AI research. IBM has selected AMD to provide AI accelerators for the IBM Cloud. This is another milestone for AMD, which needs cloud adoption to achieve its goals. And IBM...

Our Year-End Newsletter

by Karl Freund | December 19, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

With the end of the year at hand, we first want to thank you for being a follower of Cambrian-AI Research, and share a few thoughts about the industry. Our community has grown tremendously thanks to you reading our many blogs on Forbes. EE Times, and on this...

Amazon EC2 Inf1 Instances Now Support Amazon SageMaker

by Karl Freund | May 29, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

image: AWS Last year at AWS reInvent, out of the 100s of announcements, I chose the top 5 for overall, long-term impact. One of those was Amazon’s EC2 Inf1 Instances that used its new Inferentia machine learning inference chip. I chose Inf1 Instances as a top 5 for a...

IBM Advances Quantum Dev With More Performance And Qiskit Functions

by Karl Freund | September 18, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

IBM Qiskit, used to develop quantum circuits, is being augmented with a Quantum Function Catalog, is also being updated to deliver faster performance to speed application development. When Qiskit launched in 2017, the Quantum development tool helped learners and...

Will NVIDIA Enter The Race For Quantum Computing?

by Karl Freund | July 29, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

Well, not directly. However, the company is making it easier to develop code for quantum machines using GPUs. Ok, let's face it. Programming quantum computers is hard. REALLY hard. While we do not expect NVIDIA to develop and market their own quantum system any time...

Intel Ice Lake Launch Reminds Us That CPUs Are Complex

by Karl Freund | April 6, 2021 | In the News, Semiconductor | 0 Comments

And that CPU battles encompass far more than core count and SPEC benchmarks AMD’s EPYC 3 launch set the stage last month in its battle with Intel, claiming superior per-chip and per-core performance. Now, Intel’s “Ice Lake” Xeon CPU would need to put on one heck of a...

Cerebras Systems And G42 Build 2nd Phase Of Joint AI Supercomputer

by Karl Freund | November 13, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

The only AI Hardware startup to realize revenue exceeding $100M has finished the first phase of Condor Galaxy 1 AI Supercomputer with partner G42 of the UAE. Other Cerebras customers are sharing their CS-2 results at Supercomputing ‘23, building momentum for the...