Oxford-based Lumai has launched the world’s first optical computing system that can run a ...

The global optical computing market is poised for exponential growth driven by the convergence of AI bandwidth demands, photonic quantum computing, and the maturation of silicon photonics. Key ...

Lumai has successfully run billion-parameter large language models (LLMs) in real time using its optical computing system, called Lumai Iris. The company claims it is the first time an optical compute ...

Traditional artificial neural networks, exemplified by large-scale models such as ChatGPT, have been widely applied across various domains. However, these models commonly suffer from low computational ...

Lumai, the optical compute company addressing scalable AI, today announced its Lumai Iris inference server – the world’s first optical computing system to successfully run billion-parameter large ...

Iris Nova runs real-time inference on Llama 8B and 70B using a hybrid processor. The hybrid architecture combines digital ...

As artificial intelligence grows more powerful, so does its appetite for speed and energy. The quest for faster, smarter systems has driven researchers to an unlikely ally—light itself. A new study by ...

Want to call someone a quick-thinker? The easiest cliché for doing so is calling her a computer – in fact, “computers” was the literal job title of the “Hidden Figures” mathematicians who drove the ...

Lumai has unveiled what it describes as the world’s first optical computing system capable of running a billion parameter ...

Although computers are overwhelmingly digital today, there’s a good point to be made that analog computers are the more efficient approach for specific applications. The authors behind a recent paper ...