By Jordan Novet
Publication Date: 2026-03-11 00:48:00
As AI chipmaker Cerebras angles for an eventual IPO, the company appears to have landed a significant cloud-computing customer: Oracle.
On a conference call with analysts on Tuesday following Oracle’s quarterly earnings, Clay Magouyrk, one of the software vendor’s two CEOs, indicated that his company’s infrastructure includes Cerebras chips, alongside graphics processing units (GPUs) from market leader Nvidia and rival Advanced Micro Devices.
“We build infrastructure which is flexible, fungible, and can support the smallest workloads up to the largest,” Magouyrk said. “We continually offer the latest in accelerators, from the most recent Nvidia and AMD options to emerging designs from companies like Cerebras and Positron,” another AI hardware startup.
Cerebras offers cloud services that employ its large-scale WSE-3 chips. The company filed paperwork for an IPO in 2024 but withdrew the filing last October. Days later, it announced a $1.1 billion funding round at a valuation of $8.1 billion, and CEO Andrew Feldman said Cerebras still intends to go public.
For prospective investors, one of the most glaring concerns from Cerebras’ original prospectus was its reliance on a single customer based in the Middle East. G42, backed by Microsoft, is headquartered in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, and in the first half of 2024, it accounted for 87% of Cerebras’ revenue.
Bolstering its client roster with a name like Oracle could be a big boon for Cerebras, and it would follow another…