Gimlet Cloud partners with Cerebras to deploy 100MW of wafer-scale compute
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AI cloud startup recently secured $300 million in Series B funding round AI cloud startup Gimlet Cloud is partnering with wafer-scale chip and cloud company Cerebras. The two companies together will deploy 100MW of Cerebras' wafer-scale compute for inference workloads on Gimlet Cloud. The first data center under the agreement is expected to come online later this year. In addition, Gimlet will serve as one of the launch partners for Cerebras' upcoming generation of hardware, the CS-4, with availability for Gimlet customers in 2027. Gimlet Cloud is developing a cloud platform that offers a variety of silicon solutions, with the company noting in a blog post announcing the Cerebras partnership: "GPUs and wafer-scale systems have different strengths. The opportunity is to combine them within a single inference workload, using GPUs and Cerebras wafer-scale systems where each performs best, and in the process maximize both throughput and latency." This comes just weeks after Gimlet announced a $300 million Series B funding round, led by Andreessen Horowitz and joined by Sapphire Ventures, Menlo Ventures, 645 Ventures, Arm, Eclipse, Emergence, Factory, Hudson River Trading, M12, OnePrime Capital, Prosperity7, QuantumLight, Samsung Ventures, Tiger Global Management, Triatomic, Wing Ventures, and XTX Markets. This gave the company a valuation of $3 billion. CEO Zain Asgar said at...
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