This New AI Supercomputer Outperforms NVIDIA

In this video I discuss New Cerebras Supercomputer with Cerebras's CEO Andrew Feldman.
Timestamps:
00:00 - Introduction
02:15 - Why such a HUGE Chip?
02:37 - New AI Supercomputer Explained
04:06 - Main Architectural Advantage
05:47 - Software Stack NVIDIA CUDA vs Cerebras
06:55 - Costs
07:51 - Key Applications & Customers
09:48 - Next Generation - WSE3
10:27 - NVIDIA vs Cerebras Comparison
Mentioned Papers:
Massively scalable stencil algorithm: arxiv.org/abs/2204.03775
www.cerebras.net/blog/harness...
www.cerebras.net/press-releas...
Programming at Scale:
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Massively Distributed Finite-Volume Flux Computation: arxiv.org/abs/2304.11274
Mentioned Video:
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[@pbananaandfriends]

The sheer compute power of this chip are promising a new era in AI technology. I’m eager to see how this will be utilized in various applications. Kudos to the team behind this innovation!

[@christophermullins7163]

Aliens going to start taking our AI computers like theyve been taking the nukes to protect us?

[@perc-ai]

at this rate bitcoin will be susceptible to a 51% attack lol thats so much power

[@JohnSmith-ut5th]

Not really, but there are a lot of investors that are going to making a killing shorting Cerebras.

[@zool201975]

yeah dont go counting the benefits just yet.. that is a chip that draws in a 100 fucking megawat hour. that thing cant run for more then moments withouth having parts of it being vaporized into heat. with computing almost ALL of the enrgy goes into heat so that is a bloody 99 megawat heater the size of a chesboard you got there.... you litteraly need a powerplant to run this crazy thing.

[@zool201975]

why would they need either? and with the power consumption of these things we do not need nukes to bloody glass the planet lol

[@jp7585]

It seems like an apples to oranges comparison. Put it against GH200 Superpod with 256 Grace Hopper Superchips. That is Nvidias latest offering. It's not only fast, but energy efficient.

[@635574]

12x the gains. How the hell is nobody talking about it?

[@W1ldTangent]

@@635574 VHS vs betamax, Bluray vs HD-DVD... the latter was better in both cases and still lost because they couldn't get adoption. Nvidia gave away a lot of very expensive silicon for nothing in some cases or a small pittance to get CUDA in the hands of research teams at universities, who standardized on it, and eventually started teaching it. I love the idea of a competitor but they won't have an easy road if they're not willing to give away a lot of compute, and unlike Nvidia they don't have the gamers and crypto addicts buying every graphics GPU they could get their hands on for double MSRP to bankroll it.

[@waterflowzz]

Nvidia fanboy spotted. Power efficiency is a nonissue when you’re talking about the most powerful compute power cuz most people won’t have access to this power until way later.

[@nicknorthcutt7680]

​@@waterflowzzexactly, power efficiency is not the main issue 🤦

[@Leptospirosi]

You don't get the point: as the complexity of the problems you gave to feed on the AI grows these two systems stop scaling together. 90% of the raw costs is on people working on the project, so having a system that does NOT requires more work at all when your workload increases by orders of magnitudes, is a not brainer. You can start training your AI system months before you will on any Nvidia systems. The only thing Nvidia has on its side right now is the shear mass of chips produced each month, so I gues you can build a GH200 ai much faster then you can on Cerebras: not cheaper, but faster, despite being way behind in practicality and raw results.

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[@PalimpsestProd]

I'd love to see a breakdown and compare of this tech against Dojo. Code scaling, Watt's per output unit, data types, and flexibility.

[@Wirmish]

... and cost.

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[@JMeyer-qj1pv]

The bane of wafer scale computing has always been that some percentage of the wafer will have defects and be unusable. Does Cerebras has some way around that problem? There was a famous attempt at this back in the 80's and the company couldn't solve the problem and went bankrupt (Trilogy Systems).

[@prashanthb6521]

The final wafer processor always is quoted after taking into account the dysfunctional parts of that wafer. Meaning its always assumed to lose some parts to imperfections.

[@noobynoob138]

There's redundancy built into the chip, so a wafer defect only reduces performance instead of disabling the entire chip.

[@junpengqiu4054]

wonderful video, did some research about cerebras innovative and found out they really have done different and valuable things. "wafer scale engine" is what cerebras been known for, unlike traditional GPU, it is produced on an entire wafer. Conventionally, multiple cpu or gpu are 'printed' by EV on a single wafer, and later processes will cut them off the wafer. Therefore, one reason cerebras is delivering much better performance is because its 'GPU' is bigger. But this also leads to one problem: its even harder to produce than NVDIA GPUs, wafer often comes with defects, individual defected chips from conventional manufacture technique can be discarded. However, cerabras wafer scale engine needs the whole wafer to have no defects. In addtion, heat dissipation, even powering across whole surface are big challenges. Right now, cerebras is cheaper because it's not yet that popular, once market sees advantages from their super computer, their price can go higher than h100 since they are really difficult to make under current tech level.

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Whoa! This is awesome! Always brilliant content. Love this channel! Learning new words, like Wafer-scale, is eye opening!

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[@CYI3ERPUNK]

what a time to be alive XD ; luv to see the competition heat up between these top tier tech firms and the smaller startups that are rocking the boat =]

[@DinDjarin369]

Thanks for the update.

[@Bobby.Kristensen]

Great video! Thanks!

[@solidreactor]

I am very interested in Cerebras and Tenstorrent, where they seem to be the most viable alternative to Nvidia, both being companies that makes AI chip that is very scalable. The interesting differentiation between Cerebras and Tenstorrent is that Cerebras started with big chips working their way down (in a sense with enabling PyTorch compatibility) while Tenstorrent works from small chips and evolutionary works their way up. It's interesting to see these different contrasting startup philosophies work in the same industry having basically the same main competitors. Hope to see you cover these two companies in future videos.

[@geekinasuit8333]

Actually the most viable alternative to Nvidia right now is AMD's MI series of processors. The MI300 series is due to be widely available in 2024, and it will probably beat the H100 in terms of performance and flexibility. The research I've done indicates that Cerebras and Tenstorrent are very distant alternatives at this point in time relative to both Nvidia and AMD. There's also Intel with their Gaudi series, where it fits in comparatively is probably along with Cerebras and Tens, the most worrisome aspect being the longevity of the roadmap, Intel has been cutting product lines over the last for years. As we know anything can change quickly since the AI sector is in very early stages, so it's worth looking at all the players including the current batch of underdogs.

[@BienestarMutuo]

@@geekinasuit8333 We agree, if cerebras can lower her prices by 10 can be in the competition if not AMD will be the best alternative. 1 cerebras power computation = 50 nvidia power computation, but for the price of 1 cerebras (2.000.000 $) = you can buy 10 nvidia DGX (200.000 $ , 8 x a100 (10.000 $) ), in price nvidia win. And take in consideration that nvidia is expensive, very expensive. cerebras need to lower her price 4x to be competitive, 10x if want to be competitor.

[@TheMusaic]

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[@dchdch8290]

Wow , nice summary. I was actually wondering how they utilise all those wafer scale engines. Now it is clear. Thank you !

[@zandrrlife]

I've been selfishly hoping this company would stay a hidden gem 😂😂. Superior compute in terms of training models and on-premise inference. SUPERIOR.

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Thanks once again for bringing us great content.

[@kindaplayerone4128]

This is exciting indeed. like it so much. You doing great Anastasia. God bless you and your family. this goes for all involved in your vid crew.

[@chillcopyrightfreemusic]

Fantastic video I just subscribed. Mr. Feldman was speaking my mind when addressing the tokenization of the arabic language. I don't speak arabic sadly but have been trying to find good models to handle it and found that only gpt4 and bloom were decent. I think his company is on to something forging connections to the gulf. Great video thank you!

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[@andreasschaetze2930]

I remember a time where my uncle as an engineer got a PC with 40MB storage and I wondered how he would ever fill that much space. Today I need that space for one single digital raw photo 😅 It’s amazing how fast and capable hardware and software (some not so much 😂) has become

[@federicomasetti8809]

1998, my first computer (well, the "family computer", because they were very expensive, for what they could do): Pentium II at 300mHz, 32megabytes of RAM and I think something like 500megabytes of hard drive, but I'm not sure about this. Of course with floppy disk and cd drives, in that distinctive "greyed white" of the time. I was 13 back then and it feels like another era in the history of humanity 😅😂

[@willykang1293]

Thank you for your deeper introduction on Cereras!!! I won’t know this despite I stayed around Fremont and Santa Clara last month if I didn’t get into it much deeper…😄

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Very well presented, thank you!

[@HonestyLies]

very interesting, I wonder how saleable they are for production, honestly seems like companies will be fighting for these limited quantity high speed chips, surprised ive never heard of them! Great vid

[@MrFoxRobert]

Thank you!

[@thedeadbatterydepot]

Smaller isn't always better. I theorized such a computer with the whole wafer, the whole complier part was out of my skills, parallel data bus would be the only way. They have achieved the removal of the 2 compiler stages to get to machine language, the single stage compiler with whole wafer design has Nvidia beat, for much cheaper for title of most powerful AI. Dude knows what he has, I will seek to buy one of his systems, for a upcoming product. Thank you great video!

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Very interesting and shows a broader view than just the Nvidia or AMD approach. Mind boggling how fast and how far this work is going.

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We need more channels that focus on the compute chips & infrastructure of AI. All the buzz is around the software but its the hardware that makes it work.

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Amazing content is delivered with high clarity by the amazing presenter.

[@woolfel]

it's great to see so many people and companies working on AI hardware, but without a full software stack, it won't be a credible competitor to NVidia. As ML technology advances, they'll have to make sure their compiler handles the workload scheduling efficiently. That's not an easy task.

[@rilwanj]

What if they made their hardware compatible with the Nvidia software? I think in this video it was mentioned that existing tensorflow code for cuda can also work on their hardware.

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[@joen5000]

Very interesting. Thank you.

[@alanreader4815]

Looks like Good News for for AI. And bigger chips sounds positive. Great video Anastasi

[@luapo2233]

Thank you for the education.

[@ncascini01]

Wow! That bit at the end about not needing to write more code to expand the parameters/ use more chips.

[@geekinasuit8333]

There's not a lot of information about Cerebras, so thanks for making this video. I'd like to know how flexible a machine like this is with experimenting with different models? Will you be limited to only a few kinds of models, if so then what exactly are those limitations? One known issue that Cerebras acknowledges as an intentional trade off, is that a machine like this is limited with floating point accuracy and will not be suitable for models that require higher 64bit precision. It appears the machine is optimized for 16bit precision only. I expect there will be other limitations besides the FB accuracy and a summary of what those limitations and what the tradeoffs are (pros and cons) will be nice to know about.

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As an old-timer I appreciated the CEO's commentary when he threw in the term "sneaker net" while describing his AI monster.

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[@youdj_app]

Nice tan, super interesting video. AGI is around the corner... Merci!

[@Rhomagus]

Cerebras: AI supercomputer networked across three of the same type Cerberus: Three headed hound that guards the gate to Hades ... just in case you may have been confused. Don't be.

[@swamihuman9395]

- Always interesting. - Thx. - I especially like the detail about important role of prep time to set up for training. These nuances can be lost in certain presentations of the data. - As a teacher/consultant, I find that the fundamental problem is an incorrect, and/or incomplete understanding of things. One must study wide, and deep, and question understanding along the way. Many people are not willing, or able to do this, or perhaps just don't think it's worth the time - but in some cases, they do so at their detriment; and others will succeed where they fail. But, to each their own, I guess.

[@oker59]

Loved the ASML shot

[@oker59]

I saw this yesterday, and tried to see what the largest supercomputers are. I could have sworn I found 1.1 something exaflop; and the combined Cerebras was like 64 exaflops. Do I have that right?

[@oker59]

I found a great article yesterday; this one quote stuck in my mind for some strange reason, "For example, a 40 billion-parameter network can be trained in about the same time as a 1 billion-parameter network if you devote 40-fold more hardware resources to it. Importantly, such a scale-up doesn’t require additional lines of code. Demonstrating linear scaling has historically been very troublesome because of the difficulty of dividing up big neural networks so they operate efficiently. “We scale linearly from 1 to 32 [CS-2s] with a keystroke,” he says."

[@oker59]

Only 100 million dollars for one Condor Galaxy? that's the same price for a one off Formula 1 car or even a Stealth fighter; i'd call that a pretty good deal.

[@zonoskar]

Wondering what the yields are of those wafer scale units.

[@dannyboy4940]

I am astonished to see that beauty and science can coexist

[@jonmichaelgalindo]

Data quality matters vastly more than parameter count though. Improving LLMs and Stable Diffusion right now is all about figuring out how to get better data.

[@florianhofmann7553]

With a core that size aren't the yields extremely low or is it even possible as there is always an error on the whole wafer? Or do the cores have some sort of fault tolerance built in like deactivating the affected sections?

[@Deciheximal]

It's the fault tolerance thing, it's the only way they can make it work on waferscale with all the defects.

[@KingTubeAR]

Do you think this will be successful enough to fill the supply gap in the ai gpu market? It would be amazing because ai startups are starting to buy gaming GPUs which are not desined with enough VRam that it takes to work on ai

[@mdb1239]

Thanks. I never heard of this company. Amazing.

[@SocialMediaSoup]

I have no idea what she is talking about, but I keep watching her videos.

[@OriginalRaveParty]

Fascinating

[@TropicalCoder]

Fascinating! I wonder how they bridge all those wafers? Also wonder how they transport heat away from them. There is megawatts of heat produced in a much smaller volume than with GPU cabinets.

[@Dr-AK]

This information popped up on my feed and turned out to be interesting ax well. First time watching your channel. Some info was a bit over my head like teraflop and what does billions of parameters mean? Thanks for interesting video.

[@theaugur1373]

I wonder how the speedups offered by the cerebras chip compares to the speedups that are offered by something like Modular and it’s language Mojo.

[@DS-uy6jw]

Amazing content.

[@fleshpistol]

Can you start putting their stock ticker or where to send seed funds?

[@Ryan256]

Awesome!

[@RalphDratman]

What exactly does Feldman mean by "gradients" in the context of what is transmitted between geographically remote clusters?

[@punk3900]

Startup - end of story :D :D :D

[@beautifulsmall]

Everything on a single wafer must have some fascinating methods to isolate and bypass faults.

[@LuisMartinez-el6sn]

Interesting!

[@quantumsodapop]

Cool stuff

[@PACotnoir1]

What about te replacement of electronic chips by photonic chips in the edge of becoming commercially available (not just for inference but also training)?

[@AnastasiInTech]

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[@nicknorthcutt7680]

Wow that is a HUGE chip!! Amazing 😍

[@Raymond-rr5iv]

What an interesting channel and a fabulous, clear presentation on this groundbreaking million dollar AI hardware that will facilitate probably the unimaginable in the near future. Anastasi and her co-host deliver a vivid picture what the company of Nvidia created. It is very exciting ... seeing the future unfold in this enormous leap foward. It tickles me to think that gamers... with their need for the fastest speed ten or fifteen years ago who were willing to pay top dollar to get what they wanted would create a niche market to spawn the likes of this billion plus computer chip made by Ceberas is only the size of an average floor tile, but more powerful than anyting known. This feeling of excitement seems like to me what it must have been to see the Wright brothers flying across the New York City skies for the first time. The significance of this chip is as unknown yet greatly anticipated to become probably the biggest scientific tsunami that will change our civilized world as we know it. Amazing development to learn about and thank you for your excellent presentation.

[@PremiumUserUltra]

I love the art behind him.

[@norik1616]

What is cost per TFLOP? Power per TFLOP? Is it 64 wafers each 50x the power of A100 all taking 1.75 MW? If so, they'll be taking 10 % more power than the 500W NVIDIA A100 (64x50 A100s).

[@sebassanchezc-1379]

Awesome🤯

[@bapsy1]

Excellent presentation. Is the presentation done by a real person or a virtual AI clone supported by a super computer?

[@revcrussell]

"Not everyone will get it" at 0:17 I got it. The _bootleneck_ with a boot on the neck of GPU supply. I kid, I love your content.

[@MozartificeR]

What if you do same size for each wafer. What is the speed difference then?

[@florin2tube]

A comparative analysis with the Tesla 's Dojo will be great 😊

[@wilgarcia1]

I was wondering if anyone was going to try to build a CHip from the whole wafer.

[@nwickstead]

Wonder how the computer is built, the cooler looked huge so its at least 4u. Cooling could be either be hard or easy

[@chubbymoth5810]

I wonder what yield will these can expect to have get.

[@philmarsh7723]

I want one. To do RF circuit design, electromagnetic modeling, and quantum chemistry modeling.