Lightmatter

Excited to share that today, Lightmatter CEO Nicholas Harris and Chief Scientist Darius Bunandar were recognized on The Boston Globe’s Tech Power Players 50 list! The feature identifies Nicholas and Darius as innovative players in Boston’s business and technology scene, pointing to Lightmatter’s work in advancing the photonics industry. Thank you Boston Globe Media for including Lightmatter amongst great industry leaders. https://lnkd.in/ejURiEhW

Lightmatter CEO Nicholas Harris recently sat down with Will Knight at WIRED to discuss Passage, the technology making it possible to shuttle data between chips with 100x the usual bandwidth. “Data today generally moves around inside computers—and in the case of training AI algorithms, between chips inside a data center—via electrical signals. Sometimes parts of those interconnections are converted to fiber-optic links for great bandwidth, but converting signals back and forth between optical and electrical creates a communications bottleneck. Instead, Lightmatter wants to directly connect hundreds of thousands or even millions of GPUs—those silicon chips that are crucial to AI training—using optical links. Reducing the conversion bottleneck should allow data to move between chips at much higher speeds than is possible today, potentially enabling distributed AI supercomputers of extraordinary scale.” https://lnkd.in/g-_UYJ-r 

Lightmatter CEO Nicholas Harris recently participated at Sequoia Capital's event, AI Ascent, diving into what’s next for data centers and powering the next generation of AI models. “It turns out that the power of AI models scales with the amount of compute that you have and the spend for these systems is astronomical…there’s going to be an enormous amount of pressure on companies to deliver a return on this investment” - Nicholas Harris, CEO of Lightmatter. Tune in to learn more about the future of data centers on YouTube. Thank you for having us, Sequoia Capital! https://lnkd.in/gDCf3j-A

The Lightmatter team is excited to be on the ground and speaking at the OFC Conference next week. Catch live sessions featuring CEO and Founder Nicholas Harris, Co-Founder and Chief Scientist Darius Bunandar and Director of Product Management Rebecca Schaevitz as they discuss interconnect bottlenecks and break down the role of optics in AI clusters. Register here: Register and tune in on 3/24 from 4:00-6:30pm PT and 3/26 from 2:40-3:00pm PT and 7:30-9:30pm PT to catch their sessions live. #Lightmatter #photonics #datacenters #OFC24 https://lnkd.in/d9qcvSn

Thanks for the memories, Harvard Innovation Labs!

Today, Lightmatter CEO Nicholas Harris joined Bloomberg Technology for a conversation with Caroline Hyde to discuss Lightmatter’s new $155M funding round. “If we want to keep growing in the AI space and getting bigger and better models, some fundamental new technologies are needed - that’s what we’re doing at Lightmatter” - Nicholas Harris, CEO and Co-founder of Lightmatter.  View the full interview, beginning at 40:07, to see Nick discuss the heat challenges Lightmatter is solving, appetite for growth from the larger AI ecosystem, and how Lightmatter works with customers. https://lnkd.in/g9CxqctX

Our co-founder & CEO, Nicholas Harris on Lightmatter's $155M in new funding from GV (Google Ventures) & Viking Global Investors: “We are thankful for the support of our investors, each of whom share our vision of Lightmatter playing an integral role in the future of computing” https://lnkd.in/g8YNP_7T

We’re thrilled to announce that Lightmatter raised a $155M Series C-2, led by GV (Google Ventures) and Viking Global Investors, with participation from others, to accelerate its growth and meet the increasing demand of AI and high-performance computing. With this round, Lightmatter has raised over $420 million to date and is now valued at over $1.2B. “Lightmatter is positioned to be a key driver in powering the next generation of computing systems that will further enable AI innovation. Through photonic technologies, Lightmatter is ensuring the steady progress in computing performance continues, despite growing power consumption challenges and slowing progress with transistor scaling,” said co-founder and CEO, Nicholas Harris. With this additional capital, Lightmatter will expand its world-class team and office footprint, with a new office planned in Toronto. The company also shared today new appointments to its leadership team, including Daniel (Danner) Stodolsky as Vice President of Data Center Architecture, and Colin Sturt as General Counsel. Read more from Bloomberg’s Rachel Metz: https://lnkd.in/g7JdFDKn

Please join Lightmatter Photonics Technical Lead & Manager, Shashank Gupta, at the 2023 IEEE-EPS-IESA Workshop on Semiconductor Packaging. Shashank will be delivering the keynote talk "The Reincarnation of Interconnects in the Chiplet Era". https://ieee-eps-iesa.com/

Stop by booth 2209 SC Conference Series to meet the team and demo our flagship products! #SC23 #HPCaccelerates #SCinet #SCInclusivity #photonics