Compressing 163 seconds into just 5… Cerebras says "The GPU era is over"

Cerebras set a new enterprise inference record with Kimi K2.6, reaching 981 tokens per second.

For a 10,000-token prompt and 500-token reply, the system finished in just 5.6 seconds.

The result underscores Cerebras’s claim that its wafer-scale engine and CS-3 cluster can outperform GPU-based inference.

If sustained, this kind of speed could reshape agentic coding and real-time developer workflows, challenging the current GPU-centric stack.