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Cerebras achieves 2,500T/s on Llama 4 Maverick (400B)

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Re: Cerebras achieves 2,500T/s on Llama 4 Maverick (400B)

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Maybe one day they’ll have an actual api that you can pay per token. Right now it’s the standard “talk to us” if you want to use it.

Although not obvious, you _can_ pay them per token. You have to use OpenRouter or Huggingface as the inference API provider.

https://cerebras-inference.help.usepylon.com/articles/192554...

Re: Cerebras achieves 2,500T/s on Llama 4 Maverick (400B)

#32
post #8

Maybe one day they’ll have an actual api that you can pay per token. Right now it’s the standard “talk to us” if you want to use it.

Although not obvious, you _can_ pay them per token. You have to use OpenRouter or Huggingface as the inference API provider. https://cerebras-inference.help.usepylon.com/articles/192554...

Interestingly, llama 4 maverick isn't available on that page, only scout.

Re: Cerebras achieves 2,500T/s on Llama 4 Maverick (400B)

#34
> The most important AI applications being deployed in enterprise today—agents, code generation, and complex reasoning—are bottlenecked by inference latency

Is this really true today? I don't work in enterprise, so don't know how things look like, but I'm sure lots of people here do, and it feels unlikely that inference latency is the top bottleneck, even above humans or waiting for human input? Maybe I'm just using LLMs very differently from how they're deployed in a enterprise, but I'm by far the biggest bottleneck in my setup currently.

Re: Cerebras achieves 2,500T/s on Llama 4 Maverick (400B)

#35
post #34

> The most important AI applications being deployed in enterprise today—agents, code generation, and complex reasoning—are bottlenecked by inference latency Is this really true today? I don't work in enterprise, so don't know how things look like, but I'm sure lots of people here do, and it feels unlikely that inference latency is the top bottleneck, even above humans or waiting for human input? Maybe I'm just using…

It is if you want good results. I’ve been giving Gemini pro prompts for 200+ seconds multiple times per day this week and for such tasks I really like to make it double/triple check and sometimes give the results to Claude for review, too (and vice versa).

Ideally I can just run the prompt 100x and have it pick the best solution later. That’s prohibitively expensive and a waste of time today.

Re: Cerebras achieves 2,500T/s on Llama 4 Maverick (400B)

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post #35
post #34

> The most important AI applications being deployed in enterprise today—agents, code generation, and complex reasoning—are bottlenecked by inference latency Is this really true today? I don't work in enterprise, so don't know how things look like, but I'm sure lots of people here do, and it feels unlikely that inference latency is the top bottleneck, even above humans or waiting for human input? Maybe I'm just using…

It is if you want good results. I’ve been giving Gemini pro prompts for 200+ seconds multiple times per day this week and for such tasks I really like to make it double/triple check and sometimes give the results to Claude for review, too (and vice versa). Ideally I can just run the prompt 100x and have it pick the best solution later. That’s prohibitively expensive and a waste of time today.

> That’s prohibitively expensive

Assuming you experience is working within enterprise, you're then saying that cost is the biggest bottleneck currently?

Also surprising to me that enterprises would use out-of-the-box models like that, I was expecting at least fine-tuned models be used most of the time, for very specific tasks/contexts, but maybe that's way optimistic.

Re: Cerebras achieves 2,500T/s on Llama 4 Maverick (400B)

#37
post #34

> The most important AI applications being deployed in enterprise today—agents, code generation, and complex reasoning—are bottlenecked by inference latency Is this really true today? I don't work in enterprise, so don't know how things look like, but I'm sure lots of people here do, and it feels unlikely that inference latency is the top bottleneck, even above humans or waiting for human input? Maybe I'm just using…

Only an insignificant minority of companies are running their own AI LLM models.

Everyone else is perfectly fine using whatever Azure, GCP etc provide. Enterprise companies don't need to be the fastest or have the best user experience. They need to be secure, trusted and reliable. And you get that by using cloud offerings by default and only going third party when there is a serious need.

Re: Cerebras achieves 2,500T/s on Llama 4 Maverick (400B)

#38
post #36
post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is if you want good results. I’ve been giving Gemini pro prompts for 200+ seconds multiple times per day this week and for such tasks I really like to make it double/triple check and sometimes give the results to Claude for review, too (and vice versa). Ideally I can just run the prompt 100x and have it pick the best solution later. That’s prohibitively expensive and a waste of time today.

> That’s prohibitively expensive Assuming you experience is working within enterprise, you're then saying that cost is the biggest bottleneck currently? Also surprising to me that enterprises would use out-of-the-box models like that, I was expecting at least fine-tuned models be used most of the time, for very specific tasks/contexts, but maybe that's way optimistic.

Cost is irrelevant when compared to the salaries of the people using them so they will do basic cost controls but nothing too onerous. And cost is never a reason to prevent solutions being built and deployed.

And most enterprises aren't even doing anything advanced with AI. Just doing POCs with chat bots (again) which will likely fail (again). Or trying to do enterprise search engines which are pointless because most content is isolated per team. Or a few OCR projects which is pretty boring and underwhelming.

Re: Cerebras achieves 2,500T/s on Llama 4 Maverick (400B)

#39
post #8

Maybe one day they’ll have an actual api that you can pay per token. Right now it’s the standard “talk to us” if you want to use it.

Although not obvious, you _can_ pay them per token. You have to use OpenRouter or Huggingface as the inference API provider. https://cerebras-inference.help.usepylon.com/articles/192554...

Oh, this is cool. Didn’t know they are on openrouter. Thanks.

Re: Cerebras achieves 2,500T/s on Llama 4 Maverick (400B)

#40
post #34

> The most important AI applications being deployed in enterprise today—agents, code generation, and complex reasoning—are bottlenecked by inference latency Is this really true today? I don't work in enterprise, so don't know how things look like, but I'm sure lots of people here do, and it feels unlikely that inference latency is the top bottleneck, even above humans or waiting for human input? Maybe I'm just using…

Only an insignificant minority of companies are running their own AI LLM models. Everyone else is perfectly fine using whatever Azure, GCP etc provide. Enterprise companies don't need to be the fastest or have the best user experience. They need to be secure, trusted and reliable. And you get that by using cloud offerings by default and only going third party when there is a serious need.

If you think that cloud offerings are secure and trustworthy by default you truly must be living under a rock.
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