Cerebras unveils faster way to deploy AI

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All eyes are on Nvidia’s earnings report today, but relative newcomer Cerebras has an announcement that might just beat the world’s second-largest company’s numbers. And: We finally get a sneak peek into OpenAI’s “Strawberry.”

Today’s Insights

• Cerebras releases the world’s fastest AI inference system

• Tutorial: How to create AI images with Meta AI

• From the Frontier: ‘Strawberry’ details revealed

• Everything else you should know today

• 3 new AI tools to boost your productivity

• AI-Generated Images: Old Books

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Cerebras releases the world’s fastest AI inference system

We’re still in the AI dial-up era, but a startup called Cerebras wants to do to LLMs what high-speed internet did for web browsing. Earlier this year, it showed off the world’s largest AI chip (it’s about the size of a dinner plate). Now, it’s releasing a new system that can run AI products via the cloud — and at unprecedented speeds.

How it works: Cerebras packed its record-setting chips onto a system called CS-3, then used that infrastructure to build some of the world’s largest supercomputers. Its latest release helps companies put those LLMs to use in the real world. 

What’s inference anyway? 

• It’s the process of taking in new information, then running it against a dataset that the model was previously trained on

• It can be used to spot patterns in large swathes of data, and it can help models make decisions much faster than other approaches

• Inference already makes up about 40% of the AI hardware market, but that figure is steadily ticking up

Why is Cerebras so much faster than its rivals? Traditional GPUs have to interact with external memory each time they crunch a piece of data; but because Cerebras’ chips are so massive, there’s room to fit a ton of memory directly onto them, completely bypassing that step.

The results: Many performance-focused systems have to scale back their accuracy in order to boost speed. But Cerebras says its architecture runs at a native 16-bits, meaning its precision never drops off. When it comes to training Meta’s Llama 3.1, it’s around 20 times faster than comparable Nvidia GPU-based systems — at just one-fifth of the cost.

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FROM THE FRONTIER

Is it Strawberry Season?

Details about OpenAI’s “Strawberry” –  a rumored model that could take AI reasoning to the next level – have finally been revealed.

Here they are:

• Sources told The Information OpenAI might integrate Strawberry into ChatGPT, instead of releasing it as a standalone model

• It’s reportedly so powerful that a team showed it off to American national security officials this summer

• It would be able to perform high-level math and logic problems — even those it was never trained on, although it’d take longer to generate results

• It could be released as soon as this fall, with a new model code-named Orion coming at a later date

• The company is struggling to raise more capital, so this could be just the boost it needs to power through

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AI & TECH NEWS

Everything else you need to know today

• Answers in a Flash: Google is rolling out three new Gemini variants, including a more powerful Pro model that can tackle complex coding and logic problems.

• Unexpected Blessing: Elon Musk has endorsed California’s controversial AI safety bill, arguing governments should monitor LLMs “just as we regulate any product/technology that is a potential risk to the public.”

• Appliance Upgrade: Samsung’s touchscreen refrigerators are getting new AI capabilities, while its AI TVs will now receive seven years of updates.

📈 Up & Up: The AI coding platform Cursor raised $60M last week, and already, it’s become the go-to programming app for AI enthusiasts. Users say that when combined with Claude 3.5 Sonnet, the platform can help create entire apps from scratch within minutes. Even former Tesla AI director Andrej Karpathy is a fan, admitting he “can’t imagine going back to ‘unassisted’ coding at this point.”

😎 Claude-voyant: In what’s considered an industry-first bid toward transparency, Anthropic has released the system prompts for its Claude models. This typically top-secret data shows how the model comes to certain decisions — and why it might avoid certain topics altogether.

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