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Re: Tell HN: Avoid Cerebras if you are a founder

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Post by tim-tday » Wed, Jan 21, 2026, 8:09 PM UTC

Surely this isn’t how it was supposed to happen.

Re: Tell HN: Avoid Cerebras if you are a founder

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Post by lumost » Wed, Jan 21, 2026, 8:46 PM UTC

slater wrote: post #2

Is their runway money running out?

The AI market is extraordinarily skewed towards large players. It's hard for a business to support 100s of 6 figure USD sized accounts next to 1-2 9 figure accounts.

Re: Tell HN: Avoid Cerebras if you are a founder

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Post by donner_dropout » Wed, Jan 21, 2026, 11:38 PM UTC

speedgoose wrote: post #4

Cloud service providers deprecate services all the time. To be honest, why are you still on llama 3.3 70B in January 2026? Are you in the Strava AI team?

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Re: Tell HN: Avoid Cerebras if you are a founder

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Post by jmcguckin » Thu, Jan 22, 2026, 1:15 AM UTC

r_lee wrote: post #6

I noticed this behavior when the very popular Qwen models suddenly were migrated to GLM I don't know how many times this has happened in the last 12 months but I'd guess like 2-3 times?

Didn’t Cerebras announce a deal with OpenAI recently? Perhaps they need the resources for that contract…

Re: Tell HN: Avoid Cerebras if you are a founder

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Post by moonshotwice » Thu, Jan 22, 2026, 1:33 AM UTC

remusomega wrote: post #8

r_lee wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did they really do that?

Yes, every single Enterprise customer that was unfortunate enough to be subscribed to LLama 3.3 has had their plans terminated. Everyone would have gladly migrated to OSS or something, but they never gave us the option.

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Re: Tell HN: Avoid Cerebras if you are a founder

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Post by varshith17 » Thu, Jan 22, 2026, 6:56 AM UTC

Hardware company LARPing as infrastructure provider. Their wafer-scale chips can't multi-tenant like GPUs, so "enterprise" means "first in line for deprecation" apparently. Cool tech, zero operational maturity. Stick to providers who understand that "enterprise" means contracts, not vibes.

Re: Tell HN: Avoid Cerebras if you are a founder

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Post by robertjwebb » Thu, Jan 22, 2026, 9:22 AM UTC

lumost wrote: post #12

slater wrote: post #2

Is their runway money running out?

The AI market is extraordinarily skewed towards large players. It's hard for a business to support 100s of 6 figure USD sized accounts next to 1-2 9 figure accounts.

This makes me suspect that OP would have similar problems with other inference providers.