# Michael James

> Michael James is co-founder and Chief Architect of Advanced Technologies. Cerebras Inference on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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Co-founder and Chief Architect, Advanced Technologies.

Michael 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.

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-james-905b1423/

## What Michael builds

- [Cerebras Inference](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cerebras-inference.md), graded B, 68.6/100, in Model APIs & 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.

## Works with

- [Andrew Feldman](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/andrew-feldman/), Co-founder and CEO
- [Gary Lauterbach](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/gary-lauterbach/), Co-founder, Cerebras Systems Inc.
- [Hagay Lupesko](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/hagay-lupesko/), SVP, AI Inference (official company title: SVP AI Cloud)
- [Jean-Philippe Fricker](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/jean-philippe-fricker/), Co-founder and Chief System Architect
- [Sean Lie](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/sean-lie/), Co-founder and CTO

## Questions

### Who is Michael James?

Michael 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.

### What does Cerebras Systems Inc. make?

Anchor 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.

### How are Michael's tools graded?

Cerebras Inference is graded B, 68.6 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

## Sources

- https://www.cerebras.ai/company
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/hagaylupesko
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewdfeldman/
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/sean-lie-4a80097/
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/jean-philippe-fricker-b39800/
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-james-905b1423/
- https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7460759522773569536/
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/gary-lauterbach-9689064/
- https://www.cerebras.ai/build-with-us
- https://www.cerebras.ai/inference

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