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 capital firm Plural.
” Different photonic companies have different ideas about how to use the technology to revamp data centers … but Oriole Networks’ may have the most sweeping vision, using photonics to connect every AI chip in a supercomputing cluster to every other chip in the entire cluster.”
Jeremy Kahn – Fortune