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  "markdown": "Co-founder and Chief Architect, Advanced Technologies.\n\nMichael James is a co-founder of Cerebras Systems and its chief architect for advanced technologies. At SeaMicro he was lead software architect for distributed system software, and after AMD acquired the company he became an AMD Fellow. His work has covered operating systems, compilers, control systems and signal processing.\n\n- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-james-905b1423/\n\n## What Michael builds\n\n- [Cerebras Inference](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cerebras-inference.md), graded B, 68.6/100, in Model APIs \u0026 inference. Cerebras Inference serves language models on Cerebras wafer-scale processors through an OpenAI-compatible API. It supports streaming, structured outputs, tool calling and prompt caching, with shared and dedicated inference options. Co-founder and Chief Architect, Advanced Technologies, researched 2026-10-27.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Andrew Feldman](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/andrew-feldman/), Co-founder and CEO\n- [Gary Lauterbach](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/gary-lauterbach/), Co-founder, Cerebras Systems Inc.\n- [Hagay Lupesko](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/hagay-lupesko/), SVP, AI Inference (official company title: SVP AI Cloud)\n- [Jean-Philippe Fricker](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/jean-philippe-fricker/), Co-founder and Chief System Architect\n- [Sean Lie](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/sean-lie/), Co-founder and CTO\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Michael James?\n\nMichael James is a co-founder of Cerebras Systems and its chief architect for advanced technologies. At SeaMicro he was lead software architect for distributed system software, and after AMD acquired the company he became an AMD Fellow. His work has covered operating systems, compilers, control systems and signal processing.\n\n### What does Cerebras Systems Inc. make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Cerebras Inference from Cerebras Systems Inc.. Cerebras Inference serves language models on Cerebras wafer-scale processors through an OpenAI-compatible API. It supports streaming, structured outputs, tool calling and prompt caching, with shared and dedicated inference options.\n\n### How are Michael's tools graded?\n\nCerebras Inference is graded B, 68.6 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://www.cerebras.ai/company\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/hagaylupesko\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewdfeldman/\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/sean-lie-4a80097/\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/jean-philippe-fricker-b39800/\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-james-905b1423/\n- https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7460759522773569536/\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/gary-lauterbach-9689064/\n- https://www.cerebras.ai/build-with-us\n- https://www.cerebras.ai/inference\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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