Eric Vishria

@OpenAI and @Cerebras have signed a multi-year agreement to deploy 750 megawatts of Cerebras wafer-scale systems to serve OpenAI customers. This has been a decade in the making. Deployment begins in early 2026, and when fully rolled out, it will be the largest high-speed AI inference deployment in the world. OpenAI and Cerebras were both founded in 2015 with radically ambitious goals. OpenAI set out to build the software that would push AI toward general intelligence. Cerebras set out to rethink computing hardware from first principles. Our teams met as far back as 2017. We shared ideas, early work, and a common belief: there would come a point when model scale and hardware architecture would have to converge. That point has arrived. ChatGPT set the direction for the entire industry. It showed the world what AI could be. Now we’re in the next phase - not proving capability, but delivering it at global scale. The history of technology is clear on one thing: speed drives adoption. The PC industry didn’t operate at kilohertz. The internet didn’t change the world on dial-up. AI is no different. As models grow more capable, speed becomes the bottleneck. Slow systems limit what users can do, how often they engage, and whether AI becomes infrastructure or remains a novelty. Cerebras was built for this moment. By keeping computation and memory on a single wafer-scale processor, we eliminate the data-movement penalties that dominate GPU systems. The result is up to 15× faster inference, without sacrificing model size or accuracy. That speed changes product design, user behavior, and ultimately productivity. For consumers, it means AI that feels instantaneous. For the economy, it means agents that can finally drive serious productivity growth. For Cerebras, 2026 will be a defining year. With this collaboration with OpenAI, Cerebras’ wafer-scale technology will reach hundreds of millions - and eventually billions - of users. We’re proud to work alongside OpenAI to bring fast, frontier AI to people around the world. This is what a decade of long-term thinking looks like.

Excited to announce that @zeynepinanoglu is joining @WeAreLegora as our Chief Marketing Officer. Zeynep ran marketing at Atlassian — a 450-person marketing org at USD 6B+ ARR. Before that, she was CMO at Palo Alto Networks, where she helped take the company through a 5x increase in market cap while defining entirely new categories from scratch. Those numbers are rare. But what impressed me the most in our conversations was something harder to find: she thinks like a builder. She's led PLG motions with direct revenue accountability. She's operated at scale without losing the instinct that makes great marketing actually work. One more thing: she has a PhD in Machine Learning from Cambridge. Half the marketing industry is still figuring out what AI means for their function. Zeynep has been sitting with those questions for a long time. She's coming in to lead an already exceptional team. The Legora marketing org have shown the world what B2B AI marketing looks like when you genuinely believe in what you're building — the Jude Law campaign alone got global recognition most B2B companies would never dream of. Legora now has more than 100,000 users, 1,200+ customers across 50 countries, and a real shot at defining what agentic law means for the world. Zeynep joins at the moment when that story needs to be told at scale. Welcome, Zeynep! Read the full story by @meliarobin at @BusinessInsider: businessinsider.com/legora-hires-c…

In April 2016, I threatened to climb over @andrewdfeldman's fence to give him his first term sheet for @cerebras. It was April Fool’s day, but I wasn’t fooling around. The story started in October 2007, when Andrew and his co-founder Gary Lauterbach had just started SeaMicro. Even then, Andrew was a force of nature. He was extremely intense and miswired in all the right ways. You could feel the sparks flying off him. We didn't invest in SeaMicro, but we stayed in touch. Andrew and the team built SeaMicro then sold it to AMD in 2012. When AMD acquired SeaMicro, I had a hunch Andrew wouldn't last long inside a big company. He has, as I've said many times, immense ambition and a heart full of disobedience. By early 2014, he was looking for an escape hatch. Over the next year and a half, Andrew and I met 6 or 7 times. Sometimes in our office. Sometimes at a coffee shop in Portola Valley. Sometimes at our local tennis and swim club. We kept coming back to one thing: deep learning workloads were growing exponentially, and traditional compute architectures couldn't keep up. GPUs had become the default for neural network training, mainly because researchers had accidentally discovered they were less terrible than CPUs. Andrew, Gary and Sean saw the GPU for what it was: a battlefield promotion of a chip optimized for graphics. Better than a CPU, but not what anyone would design starting from a blank sheet of paper. Their key insight was that memory bandwidth, not raw compute, was the real constraint on what neural networks could achieve. So Andrew, Sean Lie, Gary Lauterbach, Jean-Philippe Fricker and Michael James set out to do something nobody had pulled off in the 75-year history of semiconductors: Build a wafer-scale chip the size of a dinner plate. In April 2016, I asked Andrew if we could be his first term sheet. @ericvishria at Benchmark and I co-led the round along with Pierre Lamond from Eclipse. Then the hard work began. In the 75-year history of computing, no one had made wafer scale work. Which meant no one had ever had to solve the problems that came from trying. How do you power a chip that large? How do you cool one? How do you maintain electrical continuity across tens of thousands of connection points on a single piece of silicon? To get there, Cerebras had to invent in nearly every modern computing discipline at once: semiconductors, systems, data fabric, software, algorithms. Each was a startup in its own right. Their first wafer self-destructed on initial power-up and Andrew and the team were back in the lab the next morning, identifying what didn’t work and coming up with approaches to solving it. Yesterday, Cerebras went public. 19 years after our first meeting, 10 years after that April Fool's term sheet, they’ve built a generational AI company. From a coffee shop in Portola Valley to ringing the bell at the NASDAQ. What a journey. Proud to have been Andrew's first partner in Cerebras. Even prouder to call him my friend.

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@IanRountree Based on the S-1 they hold 20.4M class B shares while Benchmark only holds 15.3M. Not discrediting but feel like media is one-sided

Ringing the @Nasdaq bell is just the beginning.