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Cerebras's Next Generation CS-4: Fast Just Got Faster

August 19

Cerebras revealed CS-4 this week, with more details to come at Hot Chips. CS-4 is their fourth-generation rack built around the same third generation 5nm wafer-scale engine: WSE-3.

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