Cerebras launches new server chip and system designed to speed AI chatbots

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 18 : Cerebras Systems announced on Tuesday a new version of its server hardware that includes its dinner-plate-sized chips that it says will speed AI chatbot queries.Cerebras makes AI hardware and chips that compete with Nvidia and targets the portion of AI called inference, the computing process of generating an answer in a chatbot such as Anthropic’s Claude.The new system, called the CS-4, is a server rack powered by three of the large chips the company designs, which Cerebras said translates into better performance. The hardware is based around the company’s Nexus server architecture, which includes pluggable modules that house the chips.In part, Cerebras' chips gain a speed advantage because they are large enough to avoid the energy and slowdown of moving data from o