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 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