Green AI Cloud and Cerebras Systems Bring Industry-Leading AI Performance and Sustainability to Europe

SUNNYVALE, CALIFORNIA and STOCKHOLM, Dec 14, 2022 – Cerebras Systems, the pioneer in high performance artificial intelligence (AI) compute, and Green AI Cloud, the most sustainable super compute platform in Europe, today announced the availability of Cerebras Cloud at Green AI. As the first cloud computing provider in Europe to offer the industry-leading CS-2 system, Green AI customers now can easily train GPT-class models much faster than traditional cloud service providers and with significantly less environmental impact.

The Green AI Cloud is a pioneer in clean energy compute. The Green AI Cloud uses only renewable energy (Hydro and Wind Power) in its datacenter placed in the north of Sweden and converts the excess heat from operations into a heated liquid for industrial product manufacturing – resulting in a negative CO₂ footprint. With its new Cerebras Cloud offering, customers can now train leading generative Transformer (GPT)-class models, including GPT-J, GPT-3 and GPT-NeoX, with the promise of equivalent carbon offsets through Green AI’s uniquely sustainable and “carbon-intelligent” cloud.

“We are thrilled to offer our customers access to the industry-leading CS-2 system, powered by the 850,000 AI core WSE processor, which will greatly reduce their initial programming work and enable easy integration with existing workflows,” said Jacob Bostrom, Founder and CEO of Green AI Cloud. “By providing the latest and fastest AI technology through our partnership with Cerebras, we continue to not only drive the future of AI innovation, but also the next era of sustainability and environmental responsibility.”

Energy Efficiency and CO₂ Reduction – Examples

• Cerebras CS-2 is 3,5 times more energy efficient than NVIDIA® A100 for multi-billion parameter NLP models GPT-J, GPT-3, GPT-3XL,
• Cerebras CS-2 is 6 times more energy efficient than NVIDIA V100 for AI model ‘BERT Base’ (according to University of Massachusetts Amherst and MIT Technology Review).
• Using Green AI Cloud compared to other European Cloud providers when training a single deep learning AI transformer model, the resulting carbon offset is equivalent to the annual CO₂ absorption from 11 000 trees!

Safeguarding Data Security and Privacy Regulations
The EU has some of the strictest data privacy and security rules in the world. A cloud provider based in the EU, such as Green AI Cloud, enables customers across the EU to benefit from Cerebra’s industry-leading AI compute and stay within the data privacy structures. Customers across segments, from pharmaceutical to finance services, and energy to heavy manufacturing, now have push-button access to the Cerebras CS-2 system and can use it by the day, week, or month.

“Cerebras is committed to delivering AI compute – via cloud, on premise or hybrid – to our customers around the world in the most environmentally efficient way possible,” said Andrew Feldman, co-founder and CEO, Cerebras Systems. “As the leader in energy efficient AI compute, it was an obvious choice to partner with and deliver AI compute to the Green AI Cloud.”

Cerebras recently announced its AI Model Studio, as well as partnerships and wins with Sandia National Laboratory and generative AI pioneer Jasper. At the NeurIPS Conference earlier this month, Cerebras broke new ground demonstrating high sparsity training on GPT class models, showing that GPT models can be trained at 90% sparse, using a fraction of the FLOPs and time, and still achieve the same accuracy.

With customers in North America, Asia, Europe and the Middle East, Cerebras is delivering industry leading AI solutions to a growing roster of customers in the enterprise, government, and high-performance computing (HPC) segments, including Jasper, GSK, AstraZeneca, TotalEnergies, nference, Argonne National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, Leibniz Supercomputing Centre, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (EPCC), National Energy Technology Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratory, and Tokyo Electron Devices.

For more information, please visit https://greenai.cloud/.

About Green AI Cloud

Green AI Cloud – a European Cloud Service Provider offering AI Super Compute for the largest AI models available. Green AI Cloud delivers superior cost efficiency while being the greenest CSP in Europe – fully capitalizing on its location in the northern part of Sweden that gives access to green energy, carbon offset facilities and world leading datacenter infrastructure.

About Cerebras Systems

Cerebras Systems is a team of pioneering computer architects, computer scientists, deep learning researchers, and engineers of all types who have come together to build a new class of computer system. That system is designed for the singular purpose of accelerating AI and changing the future of AI work forever, enabling customers to accelerate their deep learning work by orders of magnitude.

The Cerebras AI Model Studio offers users the ability to train GPT-class models at half the cost of traditional cloud providers and requires only a few lines of code to get going. Users can choose from state-of-the-art GPT-class models, ranging from 1.3 billion parameters up to 175 billion parameters, and complete training with 8x faster time to accuracy than on an A100.

“The new Cerebras AI Model Studio expands our partnership with Cirrascale and further democratizes AI by providing customers with access to multi-billion parameter NLP models on our powerful CS-2 clusters, with predictable, competitive model-as-a-service pricing,” said Andrew Feldman, CEO and co-founder of Cerebras Systems. “Our mission at Cerebras is to broaden access to deep learning and rapidly accelerate the performance of AI workloads. The Cerebras AI Model Studio makes this easy and dead simple – just load your dataset and run a script.”

The Cerebras AI Model Studio offers users cloud access to the Cerebras Wafer-Scale Cluster, which enables GPU-impossible work with first-of-its-kind near-perfect linear scale performance. Users can access up to a 16-node Cerebras Wafer-Scale Cluster and train models using longer sequence lengths of up to 50,000 tokens – a capability only available to Cerebras users – opening up new opportunities for exciting research.

“We are really excited to offer our enterprise, research and academic customers easy, affordable access to the leading CS-2 accelerator to train GPT-class models in less than one day,” said PJ Go, CEO, Cirrascale Cloud Services. “We’ve made the process extremely simple – eliminating the need for dev-ops and distributed programming – with push-button model scaling, from 1 to 20 billion parameters.”

With every component optimized for AI work, the Cerebras Cloud @ Cirrascale delivers more compute performance at less space and less power than any other solution. Depending on workload, from AI to HPC, it delivers hundreds or thousands of times more performance than legacy alternatives, but uses only a fraction of the space and power. Cerebras Cloud is designed to enable fast, flexible training and low-latency datacenter inference, thanks to greater compute density, faster memory, and higher bandwidth interconnect than any other datacenter AI solution.

The Cerebras AI Model Studio is available now. For a limited time, users can sign up for free 2-day trial evaluation run.  Customers can begin using the Cerebras AI Model Studio by visiting https://cirrascale.com/cerebras/. For more information, please visit https://www.cerebras.net/product-cloud/.

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About Cirrascale Cloud Services

Cirrascale Cloud Services is a premier provider of public and private dedicated cloud solutions enabling deep learning workflows. The company offers cloud-based infrastructure solutions for large-scale deep learning operators, service providers, as well as HPC users. To learn more about Cirrascale Cloud Services and its unique cloud offerings, please visit www.cirrascale.com or call (888) 942-3800.

About Cerebras Systems

Cerebras Systems is a team of pioneering computer architects, computer scientists, deep learning researchers, and engineers of all types who have come together to build a new class of computer system. That system is designed for the singular purpose of accelerating AI and changing the future of AI work forever, enabling customers to accelerate their deep learning work by orders of magnitude.

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