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WarmWashtoday at 7:02 PM1 replyview on HN

The stake in the side of cerebras has always been that the economics are pretty poor.

Who knows if they will subsidizes it to mitigate sticker shock, but it's a safe assumption that it will be scarily expensive. However if you are in a "cost is no obstacle, speed is god" position, it will likely be pure magic.


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fcarraldotoday at 7:08 PM

Can anyone explain why Cerberus needs to be _fast_ instead of _cheap_?

I don't think I understand why they aren't leveraging the increased speed to do batching to serve more customers at a "normal" tok/s.

Is the limitation, even on cerberus, still that the cache can only serve so many concurrent sessions over time? Is there no scaling advantage? I genuinely do not understand how any of this works.

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