JUST IN: AI CHIPMAKER CEREBRAS JUST PRICED ITS IPO AT $185 PER SHARE, ABOVE THE $150-$160 MARKETED RANGE The order book was oversubscribed 20+ times. The full picture, per Bloomberg: The deal: - IPO price: $185 (above the $150-$160 range, which had already been raised Monday) - 30 million shares offered (also revised higher Monday) - Total raised: ~$5.55 billion - Order book: 20x+ oversubscribed - Cerebras asked institutional investors to specify the max price they'd pay, to gauge true demand The company: - AI chipmaker positioning to challenge NVIDIA $NVDA - Amazon $AMZN said this year it plans to use Cerebras chips alongside its Trainium processors - OpenAI released its first model running on Cerebras chips in February - OpenAI holds 33.4 million warrants for Cerebras shares, with some vesting tied to compute delivery dates and Cerebras' market cap exceeding $40 billion The M&A backdrop: - Arm Holdings $ARM and majority owner SoftBank made an approach to acquire Cerebras weeks before the expected IPO