# Cerebras WSE-3 Chip Achieves 6.7x Faster Inference Than GPU Cloud Providers

> Cerebras says its WSE-3 chip has been independently clocked running Moonshot's trillion-parameter Kimi K2 model at 981 output tokens per second, roughly 6.7 times faster than mainstream GPU cloud providers. The benchmark was verified by Artificial Analysis, which lends it weight beyond a vendor claim. The hardware is genuinely extreme. WSE-3 is the largest AI chip ever built, a single wafer-scale part measuring 46,225 square millimeters with 4 trillion transistors and 900,000 cores, delivering 125 petaflops. Cerebras pegs it at 19 times the transistors and 28 times the compute of Nvidia's B200. The speed matters most for agents. A 10,000-token agentic request that takes about 163 seconds on the official endpoint finishes in roughly 5.6 seconds here, the difference between a tool you wait on and one that feels instant. As inference becomes the real cost center of AI, results like this position Cerebras as one of the few credible challengers to Nvidia's grip on enterprise deployment.

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## Wortins' read

Cerebras says its WSE-3 chip has been independently clocked running Moonshot's trillion-parameter Kimi K2 model at 981 output tokens per second, roughly 6.7 times faster than mainstream GPU cloud providers. The benchmark was verified by Artificial Analysis, which lends it weight beyond a vendor claim. The hardware is genuinely extreme. WSE-3 is the largest AI chip ever built, a single wafer-scale part measuring 46,225 square millimeters with 4 trillion transistors and 900,000 cores, delivering 125 petaflops. Cerebras pegs it at 19 times the transistors and 28 times the compute of Nvidia's B200. The speed matters most for agents. A 10,000-token agentic request that takes about 163 seconds on the official endpoint finishes in roughly 5.6 seconds here, the difference between a tool you wait on and one that feels instant. As inference becomes the real cost center of AI, results like this position Cerebras as one of the few credible challengers to Nvidia's grip on enterprise deployment.

## Source

[Read the full story at VentureBeat](https://venturebeat.com/technology/cerebras-says-its-chips-run-a-trillion-parameter-ai-model-nearly-7-times-faster-than-gpu-clouds)

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