Just days after raising $1.1 billion in funding, AI processor developer has filed to withdraw its hotly anticipated initial public offering.
The Sunnyvale, California-based company announced on Sept. 30 a Series G funding round that valued it at $8.1 billion post-money. and led the financing.
Then on Oct. 3, the startup submitted to the , formally requesting to withdraw its IPO registration because it ���does not intend to conduct the proposed offering ��� at this time.���
Cerebras originally filed to go public in September of 2024. At that time, the company was ���ramping up to take on in an effort to create processors for running generative AI models,��� .
In its filing, Cerebras noted its dependence on a single customer, Group 42, a subsidiary of its investor , responsible for more than 80% of revenue in 2023 and the first half of 2024.
Cerebras has built a larger chip that is 10x faster for AI training and inference compared to leading GPU solutions, according to the . Its customers include and the .
The company has reportedly shifted its focus since that initial filing from selling systems toward more of being a cloud service provider for accepting incoming queries to models that use its chips underneath, according to . CEO told the publication that he thought last year���s prospectus was ���out of date��� considering developments in AI.
Cerebras has raised a known $1.8 billion in funding since its 2016 founding by Feldman, per 蹤獲弝け . It raised $250 million in led by in November 2021 that valued the company at just over $4 billion. Other backers include , , , and .
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