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Cerebras, a company aiming to revolutionize AI with massive chips, faced a monumental challenge in 2019. They were on the brink of collapse, burning through millions each month to solve an unprecedented problem: transforming a single, colossal wafer into a single, super-powerful chip. This was a radical departure from the conventional method of creating smaller, faster chips. The main hurdle was packaging - connecting the chip to a motherboard, managing heat, and handling data flow. With chips fifty-eight times larger and forty times more power-hungry than anything before, they had to invent new solutions. After countless failures and innovations, including a device to secure the wafer without breaking it, they finally succeeded in July 2019. This breakthrough was significant, especially for a team that had previously sold a startup for $334 million. Recently, Cerebras secured a deal with OpenAI, ensuring OpenAIs capacity as Cerebras scales up.

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