Tell HN: Avoid Cerebras if you are a founder

35 pointsposted 17 days ago
by remusomega

Item id: 46707904

16 Comments

r_lee

17 days ago

I noticed this behavior when the very popular Qwen models suddenly were migrated to GLM

I don't know how many times this has happened in the last 12 months but I'd guess like 2-3 times?

jmcguckin

17 days ago

Didn’t Cerebras announce a deal with OpenAI recently? Perhaps they need the resources for that contract…

varshith17

16 days ago

Hardware company LARPing as infrastructure provider. Their wafer-scale chips can't multi-tenant like GPUs, so "enterprise" means "first in line for deprecation" apparently. Cool tech, zero operational maturity. Stick to providers who understand that "enterprise" means contracts, not vibes.

tim-tday

17 days ago

Surely this isn’t how it was supposed to happen.

slater

17 days ago

Is their runway money running out?

lumost

17 days ago

The AI market is extraordinarily skewed towards large players. It's hard for a business to support 100s of 6 figure USD sized accounts next to 1-2 9 figure accounts.

robertjwebb

16 days ago

This makes me suspect that OP would have similar problems with other inference providers.

speedgoose

17 days ago

Cloud service providers deprecate services all the time. To be honest, why are you still on llama 3.3 70B in January 2026? Are you in the Strava AI team?

remusomega

17 days ago

Do cloud providers kick you off the platform and terminate your account when they deprecate models too?

r_lee

17 days ago

Did they really do that?

remusomega

17 days ago

Yes, every single Enterprise customer that was unfortunate enough to be subscribed to LLama 3.3 has had their plans terminated. Everyone would have gladly migrated to OSS or something, but they never gave us the option.

knowitnone3

17 days ago

my guess is they are aiming for the high rollers and not shrimp like you even though you were "Enterprise". I worked for a company that wanted to get rid of the lower tier customers to focus the money makers.

remusomega

17 days ago

I had the second highest tier. But yes, that makes sense. Regardless, I just don't see them as a stable business partner. I know the same cycle will continue with the next round of deprecation. Perhaps the highest tier enterprise users will form a different opinion.