Quick Fire: Peace in the Middle East and UAE Revenue Concentration

Andrew Feldman is Co-Founder & CEO of Cerebras, building the world's fastest AI inference and training. Cerebras recently closed a $1.1BN Series G round at an $8.1 billion valuation, backed by top names including Fidelity, Atreides, Tiger Global, Valor Equity and 1789 Capital. Under his leadership, they’ve leapfrogged GPU limits in inference, operate at trillions of tokens per month, and are filing to go public soon.

AGENDA:

02:43 Why We Did Not IPO and Raised $1BN From Fidelity

05:03 Analysis of Chip and Compute Landscape Today

07:14 NVIDIA Showing Signs They Are Running Out of Ideas

13:57 The Real Questions to Ask on Chip Depreciation

24:54 Energy Requirements for AI: Is it Feasible?

29:25 Mag7 Value Concentration: Feature or a Bug

31:57 Talent is the Bottleneck and Trump Makes it Worse

32:55 The War for Talent: Secrets No One Sees

34:22 Evaluating the Data Centre Economy: Many Will Lose Money

38:01 Three Changes the US Could Make to Beat China in AI

42:30 Why 80% of our Revenues are in the UAE

47:26 Quick Fire Questions

58:59 Why Work Life Balance is Total BS