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I’m pretty annoyed. We’re a small AI startup building a real-time coding agent. Our p95 latency requirements are tight (and self imposed, but thats the product). We need sustained high-throughput inference with ~1-2k tokens/second. Been on the Cerebras waitlist for months trying to get API access. We’re not doing training so don’t need a warehouse of H100s. We need fast, high-throughput ASIC inference for a specific production workload. Cerebras’ just went public and they basically have no compute how is that possible?

Well turns out OpenAI and Cerebras for OpenAI to buy like $20b worth of these chips. This has effectively pre-allocated the vast majority of Cerebras’ near-term inference capacity to a single customer. I mean, none of us can compete with that

The result is that this deal situation has made their API waitlist functionally infinite for anyone who isn’t a hyperscaler. Legit making me pull my hair out.

Edit: the original post targeting Chinese researchers is removed by the mods. Points made here are responding to that particular post. So when you leave comments to this post, please do realize that there's particular context that's not available now. Sorry for any confusion.

Although the original post I'm calling out is taken down, I do think it's an important topic, and choose to keep my post unchanged.

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Yes, I'm calling it out. It IS racism. As an active member of and a researcher who is ethnic Chinese, I am DISGUSTED by unfounded accusations against the group of researchers who constitute over half of the field. Such posts pop up every other week, grounded in conspiracy theories, and creating a sinophobia echo chamber.

I understand the salty feeling when one's paper is rejected, no matter whether the paper actually deserves acceptance or not. Given the noise in conference organization and reviewing process, and a relatively junior body of participants, it is very likely that one finds a paper "worse than mine" slip into the conference, and there's a high chance that the paper has a Chinese author. That's simply because of the composition of the authors, and does not warrant accusations, aka witch hunts, towards certain ethnic groups.

This sub is about an important scientific subject in the modern world. If anyone agrees with the logic "80% of the authors are Chinese, so my rejection is their fault.", they should seriously rethink their career plan since such thinking does not belong to serious scientists. We should be open to discussing the problems we have in the current conference organization and reviewing process, but racism should not have a foothold in our field.

Edit: Since the post sparked some heated debate, I elaborate a bit. In the comments, some are like "you might be good, but I had this/that bad experience with Chinese..."

Sound familiar? This is exactly the type of comment racists make to justify racism. We have a systematic failure in the peer-review system and whether a paper/reviewer comes from China does not play any major role contributing to this failure. In a math- and data-driven sub, normalizing such claims is unbelievable and unacceptable. This IS racism.

Google deployed an agentic AI peer-reviewer at two top CS conferences — reviewing ~10,000 papers with 30-minute turnaround — and the new formal research paper shows it catches 34% more mathematical errors than zero-shot prompting; the precedent for AI-automated scientific review at conference scale is set and now formally documented.

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