Cerebras just built a gargantuan computer system with 27 million AI 'cores'

Cerebras co-founder and CEO Andrew Feldman, here seen standing atop packing crates for the CS-2 systems before their installation at the Santa Clara, California hosting facility of partner Colovore. 

Photo: Rebecca Lewington/Cerebras Systems

The fervor surrounding artificial intelligence "isn't a Silicon Valley thing, it isn't even a U.S. thing, it's now all over the world -- it's a global phenomenon," according to Andrew Feldman, co-founder and CEO of AI computing startup Cerebras Systems. 

In that spirit, Cerebras on Thursday announced it has contracted to build what it calls "the world's largest supercomputer for AI," named Condor Galaxy, on behalf of its client, G42, a five-year-old investment firm based in Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates. 

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