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I want to know what the current power requirements are, as well as the cost for the machine. The last time I looked at one of these it was an absolute beast (although very impressive).


> I want to know what the current power requirements are, as well as the cost for the machine.

"If you care and have to ask it's not for you".

In all seriousness I've worked with and am familiar with Cerebras, Groq, etc. Let's just say GPUs still reign supreme in terms of practicality outside of usage of their hardware via cloud for nearly all use-cases.

Groq, for example, has essentially stopped selling their "real" HW directly because the borderline absurd amount of floor space, etc was found to be challenging once they hit the market. There's enough demand and more (recurring) money to be made anyway hosting services on your chips.

Similar to the Bitcoin mining ASIC game in the heyday - sure we could sell these or we could just use them to mine, develop next gen, sell previous gen, repeat.


> though somewhat astonishingly, the WSE 2 draws 23 kW of power. To put this in perspective, the most powerful GPUs “only” draw around 450W

https://liquidstack.com/blog/breaking-the-thermal-ceiling-in...


They never made the price public as far as I know but said something like "less than a house". It's going to be something on the order of $300k.




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