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Lightmatter’s $400M round has AI hyperscalers hyped for photonic data centers
Photonic computing startup Lightmatter has raised $400 million to blow one of modern datacenters' bottlenecks wide open. The company's optical
The company’s optical interconnect layer allows hundreds of GPUs to work synchronously, streamlining the costly and complex job of training and running AI models. The photonic interconnect currently available from Lightmatter does 30 terabits, while the on-rack optical wiring is capable of letting 1,024 GPUs work synchronously in their own specially designed racks. Image Credits: LightmatterThe market for this is huge, Harris pointed out, with every major datacenter company from Microsoft to Amazon to newer entrants like xAI and OpenAI showing an endless appetite for compute.
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