Cerebras says its chips run a trillion-parameter AI model nearly 7 times faster than GPU clouds

Less than a week after completing the largest tech IPO of 2026, Cerebras Systems is making its most aggressive play yet to dominate the fast-growing AI inference market. On Monday, the Sunnyvale-based chipmaker announced that it is now running Kimi K2.6 — a trillion-parameter open-weight model developed by Beijing-based Moonshot AI — for enterprise customers at nearly 1,000 tokens per second, a speed no GPU-based provider has come close to matching. The result, independently verified by benchmarking firm Artificial Analysis , clocked in at 981 output tokens per second, making Cerebras 6.7 times faster than the next-fastest GPU-based cloud provider and 23 times faster than the median. For a standard agentic coding request involving 10,000 input tokens, Cerebras delivered the full response — including prompt processing, reasoning, and 500 output tokens — in 5.6 seconds, compared to 163.7 seconds on the official Kimi endpoint. That’s a 29-fold improvement in time to final answer. "We're r