{"id":122358,"date":"2021-05-07T20:22:29","date_gmt":"2021-05-08T03:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/lightmatters-photonic-ai-ambitions-light-up-an-80m-b-round"},"modified":"2021-05-07T20:22:29","modified_gmt":"2021-05-08T03:22:29","slug":"lightmatters-photonic-ai-ambitions-light-up-an-80m-b-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/lightmatters-photonic-ai-ambitions-light-up-an-80m-b-round","title":{"rendered":"Lightmatter\u2019s photonic AI ambitions light up an $80M B round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/lightmatters-photonic-ai-ambitions-light-up-an-80m-b-round2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>AI is fundamental to many products and services today, but its hunger for data and computing cycles is bottomless. <a href=\"https:\/\/lightmatter.co\/\">Lightmatter<\/a> plans to leapfrog Moore\u2019s law with its ultra-fast photonic chips specialized for AI work, and with a new $80 million round, the company is poised to take its light-powered computing to market.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2018\/02\/05\/lightmatter-aims-to-reinvent-ai-specific-chips-with-photonic-computing-and-11m-in-funding\/\">We first covered Lightmatter in 2018<\/a>, when the founders were fresh out of MIT and had raised $11 million to prove that their idea of photonic computing was as valuable as they claimed. They spent the next three years and change building and refining the tech \u2014 and running into all the hurdles that hardware startups and technical founders tend to find.<\/p>\n<p>For a full breakdown of what the company\u2019s tech does, <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2018\/02\/05\/lightmatter-aims-to-reinvent-ai-specific-chips-with-photonic-computing-and-11m-in-funding\/\">read that feature<\/a> \u2014 the essentials haven\u2019t changed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI is fundamental to many products and services today, but its hunger for data and computing cycles is bottomless. Lightmatter plans to leapfrog Moore\u2019s law with its ultra-fast photonic chips specialized for AI work, and with a new $80 million round, the company is poised to take its light-powered computing to market. We first covered [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}