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Cerebras submitted its Nasdaq S-1 on Friday — 510M in 2025 revenue, 87.9M profit, and a 24.6B backlog anchored by OpenAI. Meanwhile, the EU awarded its 180M euro sovereign cloud tender to four providers, including a Proximus-led consortium that brings Google Cloud in through a French sovereignty wrapper.

Show Notes

Two stories today that point to the same underlying shift: the AI infrastructure era is becoming a real business — with audited numbers, public filings, and geopolitical stakes.

Cerebras files its S-1: The AI chip startup filed for its Nasdaq IPO (ticker: CBRS) on Friday. Key numbers: $510M revenue in 2025, $87.9M net profit, and $24.6B in remaining performance obligations — the majority tied to the OpenAI compute deal. Lead underwriters: Morgan Stanley, Citigroup, Barclays, UBS. Private valuation: $23B. Secondary market implied: $26–28B.

EU awards €180M sovereign cloud tender: The European Commission selected four providers — Post Telecom (Luxembourg), StackIT (Germany/Schwarz Group), Scaleway (France/Iliad), and Proximus (Belgium). Proximus leads a consortium including Mistral AI, Thales, and S3NS — the Thales-Google Cloud French-jurisdiction joint venture. The tender ran October 2025 to April 2026.

Sources:
Cerebras S-1: CNBC | TECHi IPO tracker
EU Sovereign Cloud: European Commission | The Next Web | Reuters via Yahoo Finance

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