Cerebras OpenAI deal capacity has effectively killed the waitlist for everyone else [D]
Summary
Cerebras' deal with OpenAI to supply $20 billion worth of chips has pre-allocated near-term inference capacity, causing their API waitlist to become effectively infinite for other startups seeking fast inference.
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