Fares Hassanieh

Principal AI Architect @Cerebras
Building & advising on AI tech & infrastructure for fast inference.
AI · Tech · Entrepreneurship

[Cerebras @cerebras]

TSMC is perhaps the greatest manufacturing company in the world.
They have been our partner from our inception.
In August of 2017, we met with TSMC’s senior leadership in Taipei.
They were one of the largest companies in the world.
We had an idea written on PowerPoint.
We thought that we could build the largest chip in the history of the computer industry.
In the meeting, they greenlit the project.
Today our 4 trillion transistor Wafer Scale Engine, is the fastest AI processor in the world.
It is 58 times larger than the largest competitor and uses a fraction of the power per unit compute.
We could not have done it without them.
They have been an extraordinary partner in every way.
Pictured below from left to right:  TSMC CEO Dr. C.C. Wei, Cerebras COO Dhiraj Mallick and TSMC SVP Dr. Kevin Zhang.

Location TSMC’s headquarters in Taiwan.

[Andrew Feldman @andrewdfeldman]

Last month, @cerebras IPO'd in the largest semiconductor IPO in history.

In 2016, we started with a vision, a little bravado, and two contrarian bets.

We saw AI on the horizon.
And for computer architects, big new workloads are exciting opportunities.

Absent a new workload, the status quo dominates.
For nearly 30 years the server chip market was a two company game.

@intel & @AMD's x86 chips had powered every PC and laptop and most servers for generations.
It was nearly impossible to break in.

But when mobile computing emerged, neither Intel nor AMD won any share.

@Arm won it all.
A new workload.
A new winner.
15 years later, the cell phone processor market is 100% ARM.

The same had been true for graphics workloads.
The obvious answer would have been for existing x86 processor companies to win.

But a new player -- Nvidia won -- with a new part.
A part optimized exclusively for graphics.
A Graphics Processing Unit, the GPU.

With history as our guide, the Cerebras founders bet that AI would be next.
That it would require a new architecture. A dedicated one.

From the ground up, optimized in every way for AI work.
So we set out to build it.
Not a modified GPU.
A clean sheet design.
Designed for AI and only AI.

Our bet was 100% contrarian.
It turned out to be dead right.

Every major shift in computing creates opportunity.

Catching the opportunity requires some vision, bravado, the will to build something new, more time than you planned and a bit of luck.

[Fares Hassanieh @fares_87]

Cerebras CEO on Delivering AI Inference at Scale
"Nobody wants slow AI."
⚡ Speed isn't a feature — it's the product
🧠 Specialized silicon beats the GPU
📉 Builders are behind demand — the opposite of a bubble
#AI #Inference #Cerebras
https://t.co/XhXjOaA9vA

[Joseph Bahout باحوط @jobahout]

Our latest from @ifi_aub -by @R_AbouDiab ; on the #Druze pivotal situation in times of huge changes in the #Levant.

[Khattar Abou Diab @abou_diab]

#لبنان #الدروز #الهوية #العالم_العربي #الشرق_الاوسط
بحث اعده الدكتور رامي ابودياب
@R_AbouDiab
" التجاذب حول الهوية السياسية للموحدين الدروز في لبنان" ، الجامعة الاميركية-بيروت ، مركز عصام فارس بإدارة الدكتور جوزف باحوط
@ifi_aub

[Fares Hassanieh @fares_87]

Revenue in the latest quarter more than tripled from a year earlier to $26 billion, and net profit soared more than sevenfold to $14.88 billion. Both numbers were quarterly records for Nvidia, and beat analysts’ expectations.

[Fares Hassanieh @fares_87]

#Nvidia delivered a record quarter and signaled that the #AI boom is still going strong, driving its already meteoric stock up Wednesday evening above $1,000 a share. 

https://t.co/VjbybotbtM

[Fares Hassanieh @fares_87]

Data centres have turned Big Tech into big spenders https://t.co/t3tbrB5i0x via @ft

[Fares Hassanieh @fares_87]

The AI boom has led to a surge in demand for data centers, but shortages in components, real estate, and power sources are hampering their construction. #AI #DataCenters #Infrastructure https://t.co/G0pKfnqlxO

[Fares Hassanieh @fares_87]

@abou_diab الف مبروك

[Fares Hassanieh @fares_87]

Google DeepMind’s new tool for identifying AI-generated images raises questions for companies about when they should flag AI-produced content for their customers #GenAI https://t.co/o7F6Q2pJPa

[Fares Hassanieh @fares_87]

Broad productivity and economic output gains may be coming, but knowledge workers will face a reckoning as the nature of work changes

#GenAI #tech #economy

[Statista @StatistaCharts]

Cigarette sales have declined more or less continuously over the past 40 years, dropping more than 50% since 2000 and almost 70% since smoking's heyday in the early 1980s.

[kamil Al Rayess @kamilAlRayess]

من أجمل أحراش الصنوبر في لبنان - حرش بلدة بمهريه
#وجه_لبنان_الجميل
#بيئة_لبنان
#طبيعة_لبنان

[Ghassan Salame @GhassanSalame]

The very sad story of a large group of true villains, of a victimized population and of a betrayed country. https://t.co/AkXqUgFDhT

[Fares Hassanieh @fares_87]

#Organizations with a strong #learning culture are 92% more likely to develop #novel products and processes, 52% more productive, 56% more likely to be the first to market with their products, and 17% more #profitable than their peers. ⁦@HarvardBiz⁩ https://t.co/2BvTNVLgcJ

[Fares Hassanieh @fares_87]

Dubai Ruler issues law to regulate #digital services, electronic payment solutions, and #cybersecurity
#fintech https://t.co/4kCqCPoAKs

[Fares Hassanieh @fares_87]

A #tech #stack is only a part of the ideal #architecture. Modernizing your existing tech stack to meet today’s #IT requirements is one of the best ways to reach that ideal architecture. But what exactly is it? #modernapp https://t.co/gIqS7640Ws