NEW YORK-( BUSINESS WIRE)- CB Insights today named Luminous Computing to its annual AI 100 ranking, showcasing the 100 most promising private artificial intelligence companies in the world. Silicon photonics is now mature enough to be used to design complete systems. "This is the sixth year that CB Insights has recognized the most promising private artificial intelligence companies with the AI 100. Luminous Computing is betting its future on silicon photonics as an enabler for an artificial intelligence (AI) supercomputer. This year's cohort spans 13 industries, working on everything from recycling plastic waste to improving hearing aids," said Brian Lee, SVP of CB Insights’ Intelligence Unit. The Mountain View, California-based supercomputer company closed a 105 million Series A Thursday from investors including Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates. Si Gates, na kilala sa kanyang pangitain na diskarte sa teknolohiya, ay kinikilala ang potensyal ng light based AI acceleration at ipinakita ang kanyang. Luminous Computing is oneand investors seem intrigued with its promise. We’re excited to watch the companies on this year’s list continue to grow and create products and services that meaningfully impact the world around them.” "Last year's AI 100 companies had a remarkable run, raising more than $6 billion, including 20 mega-rounds worth more than $100 million each. Ang tagumpay ng Luminous Computing’s Series A funding round, na nagtaas ng 105 milyon, ay maaaring maiugnay sa bahagi sa paglahok ng mga kilalang mamumuhunan, kabilang ang Bill Gates 1. “We’re making significant strides to complete our mission of building the most powerful, scalable AI supercomputer on Earth, and we look forward to showcasing its capabilities in 24 months.” “Our team at Luminous is honored to be included on the CB Insights AI 100 list,” said Marcus Gomez, Luminous CEO and Co-founder. Utilizing the CB Insights platform, the research team picked 100 private market vendors from a pool of over 7,000 companies, including applicants and nominees. They were chosen based on factors including R&D activity, proprietary Mosaic scores, market potential, business relationships, investor profile, news sentiment analysis, competitive landscape, team strength, and tech novelty. The research team also reviewed thousands of Analyst Briefings submitted by applicants. Luminous is building a supercomputer that will fulfill the AI promises made by Silicon Valley 30 years ago, such as eliminating car accidents with self-driving cars and detecting and curing diseases through highly personalized drug discovery and automated health analytics. “Just imagine a world,” says Partovi, “in which Siri really worked well all of the time.The AI community knows how to deliver all of these capabilities from an algorithmic perspective, but more compute, bandwidth and memory are desperately needed. They are also betting the companies that break through the computing bottleneck will be the ones to help unleash the true potential of AI.Īli Partovi of Neo, a venture fund that invested in Luminous’s seed round, points out that even things like voice assistants on smartphones are still frustratingly prone to glitches because the devices lack enough AI computing power. Gates and other backers are betting that Gomez, Nahmias, and Michael Gao, Luminous’s other cofounder, can overcome this and other hurdles. Optical chips need everything from lasers to electro-optic modulators for controlling light to make them work, which is a big reason they haven’t yet caught on widely. And semiconductor behemoths like Intel are stepping up research in the field, which could lead to them launching new optical processors.ĭirk Englund, an MIT professor who’s also a technical advisor to Lightmatter, thinks Luminous may find it challenging to manage the various devices required to manipulate light when it starts to ramp up production of its chips. Startups like Lightelligence and Lightmatter-spot the branding theme here-are also working on optical chips to accelerate AI.
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