Wafer, an AI company, published a curated reading list for learning GPU performance engineering and production inference, ordered from a single inference request to distributed systems and featuring p…
AI optimization startup Wafer has raised a $40 million Series A at a valuation north of $200 million, a 50x increase from its $4 million seed round closed in April 2026, after turning down acquisition…
Wafer, an AI infrastructure provider founded by Emilio Andere and Steven Arellano, reported that running Kimi K3 on eight AMD MI355X GPUs delivered 48 tokens per second per dollar, outperforming Nvidi…
AMD's MI355X GPU achieved 48 tokens/sec per dollar running the 2.8T-parameter Kimi K3 model, outperforming Nvidia's B300 (33 tokens/sec) and B200 (7 tokens/sec), according to benchmarks from Wafer. Th…
Wafer's benchmark shows AMD's MI355X GPUs deliver 952 tok/s/node on Kimi K3, outperforming NVIDIA's B300 on performance per dollar at 48 tok/s/$ versus 33 tok/s/$, despite B300's higher aggregate thro…
AMD's Instinct MI355X achieves roughly 80% of NVIDIA B200 throughput on GLM-5.2 inference at over 2x lower cost, delivering more than 2x better tokens-per-dollar after hand-tuning the ROCm software st…
Inference startup Wafer claims it achieved 80% of Nvidia B200 performance on AMD MI355X GPUs running GLM-5.2, with 2.6x cheaper hardware, by optimizing the software stack. The benchmark, published by …
Wafer served GLM5.2 on AMD MI355X GPUs at 2626 tokens per second per node with over 2x lower cost than NVIDIA Blackwell, achieving 213 tok/s single stream. The company used MXFP4 quantization via AMD …
A new benchmark of 14 API providers for the GLM-5.2 (max) model reveals Fireworks leads in output speed (261.5 t/s) and low latency (9.81s), while GMI (FP8) offers the lowest blended price at $0.72 pe…
Vercel's AI Gateway now offers GLM 5.2 Fast via Wafer, delivering 2x higher throughput than other providers in benchmarking tests. The model achieves over 170 tok/s for small contexts and over 200 tok…