Oh, For Fucking Christ’ Sake – Cerebras Again

Right, so these clowns at Cerebras Systems? The ones building that ridiculously oversized wafer-scale engine? They’ve managed to scrape together another $1.1 billion in funding. Another one point one BILLION. After a year of supposedly gearing up for an IPO they *still* haven’t gone public, because let’s be honest, who the hell wants to buy into this mess right now?

Apparently, this cash injection is going towards…wait for it…more development of their AI chips and software. Shocking. They’re claiming “significant traction” with customers – which translates to “we convinced a few suckers to try our ridiculously expensive hardware.” They’ve got some new stuff coming out in 2024, but honestly? It all sounds like catching up to everyone else at this point.

The valuation isn’t even disclosed. Which means it’s probably not good. They were once valued at $5 billion, now? Who knows. SoftBank is still throwing money at them (because they have a habit of burning through cash like it’s going out of style), and BlackRock chipped in too – because apparently some people enjoy losing money.

Basically, this isn’t an IPO success story; it’s a company desperately trying to stay afloat with more venture capital. Don’t hold your breath for profitability anytime soon. It’s just another example of AI hype and over-engineering gone wrong. Honestly, I could probably build something better out of Lego.

Source: TechCrunch

Speaking of over-engineered crap, I once had to debug a system where someone decided the best way to handle network traffic was with a series of nested Perl scripts and a custom-built TCP stack. It took me three days, an industrial amount of caffeine, and a healthy dose of profanity just to figure out why it kept crashing. This Cerebras thing feels…familiar.

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