Andrew Feldman | How Cerebras Built the "Impossible" AI Chip Now Challenging NVIDIA

Cerebras Systems' unlikely journey to creating the world's largest chip and fastest AI inference engine is explored through a conversation with founder and CEO Andrew Feldman. Feldman discusses his upbringing on the Stanford campus, which instilled a deep intellectual curiosity and the drive to build infrastructure, drawing parallels to the early internet days. He recounts the initial skepticism surrounding AI in 2015 and the visionary meetings with OpenAI leaders that fueled Cerebras' focus on high-speed compute. Feldman highlights the company's wafer-scale chip design with SRAM to overcome the limitations of traditional architectures. The discussion also covers the strategic decision to partner with the UAE, recognizing their ambitious AI vision and the importance of building durable companies with a passion for solving challenging problems.