May 14 : Shares of chip designer Cerebras Systems soared 89 per cent above the initial public offering price on their Nasdaq debut, extending the market's unrelenting frenzy for companies seen as the biggest beneficiaries of the artificial intelligence boom.Its shares opened at $350 on Thursday, well above th

Elon Musk was open to having OpenAI merge with Cerebras. Now Cerebras is looking at going public as soon as this week.

Cerebras Systems upsized its IPO to 30 million shares at $150-$160 each, targeting $4.8B with a $33B valuation as the book was oversubscribed roughly 20x.

Share price above the expected range

Company raised $5.55bn from sale of 30 million shares

Cerebras Systems, the AI chipmaker rival to Nvidia, is set to raise more than $5.5bn after pricing its US IPO at $185 per share.

It topped expectations that were already high.

Cerebras starts trading on Nasdaq Global Select Market on Thursday under the ticker symbol 'CBRS'.