Category: Press

  • Investors pour into photonics startups to stop data centers from hogging energy and to speed up AI

    Investors pour into photonics startups to stop data centers from hogging energy and to speed up AI

    Extract from an article published on fortune.com on October 21, 2024. To read the full article, click here. Oriole Networks, a British company with plans for a completely new networking infrastructure for AI supercomputing clusters that is based on using light instead of electricity to transmit data, has raised $22 million from the London-based venture…

  • UCL professor’s discovery could halve energy use for data centres

    UCL professor’s discovery could halve energy use for data centres

    Extract from an article posted on thetimes.com on April 1, 2024. To read the full article, click here. Oriole Networks raises £10m to produce light beams that could stop energy-hungry AI training programs from ‘burning the planet down’. “This is an amazing technology answering the question of how we can have more generative AI without…

  • Breakthrough could help train AI 100 times faster while cutting energy use

    Breakthrough could help train AI 100 times faster while cutting energy use

    Extract from an article published on Sifted on March 27, 2024. To read the full article, click here. London-based spinout Oriole Networks has raised £10m to build optical networks between GPUs in AI clusters. “Oriole’s solution comes from the work of professor George Zervas at UCL, who’s been working on improving computer networks since his…