Cerebras boasts real technology, a $24.6bn RPO backlog, and a marquee OpenAI partnership but trades at 18x FY28E sales, pricing in flawless execution. Customer concentration remains high, with UAE entities comprising 86% of FY25 revenue; OpenAI offers diversification but introduces new concentration risk. The OpenAI relationship is both a moat and a binary risk; if OpenAI shifts inference in-house, CBRS loses a key customer and strategic influence.
Today, Cerebras Systems is a public company that sells AI chips for inference to giants like OpenAI and AWS. It held a blockbuster IPO on Thursday, with both of its co-founders billionaires, and ended the week worth about $60 billion.
Cerebras' monster debut signals insatiable demand for Nvidia alternatives to power AI. The Silicon Valley company makes custom chips known as ASICs - and its version is the size of a dinner plate.
The hot ticker on every retail trader's screen this week is Cerebras Systems (NASDAQ:CBRS), the AI chip designer whose IPO surged 65% on its IPO day and is now drawing the predictable wave of FOMO from anyone hunting the next Nvidia.
A startup known for its big chips now has a giant valuation to live up to.