If Cerebras can grow beyond its initial benefactor, G42, this IPO will be a rocket ship. If not, … It may be hard to believe, but there hasn’t been a single IPO for an AI hardware company. Period. Not One.

Cerebras Systems Inc., a maker of chips and other tech infrastructure for artificial intelligence, filed for an initial public offering on Monday, as more startups look to make a name for themselves in a space occupied by tech juggernauts like Nvidia Corp.

To take market share from Nvidia, Cerebras would need to add application software that is more advanced and useful than Nvidia’s CUDA.

Cerebras touts the world's largest and fastest AI chip, and competes with Nvidia, a top player in the AI computing space.

Cerebras is in a fierce race with fellow AI chip startups Groq and SambaNova for the title of ‘fastest generative AI.’

Cerebras Systems, a startup competing with industry leader Nvidia for a slice of the lucrative AI chip market, said late on Monday its revenue surged more than threefold in 2023, in a filing to go public in the U.

As the largest beneficiary of the generative AI surge, Nvidia's dominance has attracted a wave of challengers. The recent initial public offering (IPO) filing by Cerebras signals growing efforts to challenge Nvidia's control over supply and pricing in the AI chip market.