Lumilens raises more than $700 million to connect AI data centers with light
The two-year-old startup says an unnamed hyperscaler is deploying its optical hardware under a multi-billion-dollar agreement.
By Ryan Merket · Published
Primary source: The Wall Street Journal
Why it matters
AI spending is moving from GPU procurement into the networks around those chips. Lumilens's round shows investors expect optical interconnects to produce platform-scale winners.
Lumilens founder and CEO Ankur Singla has raised more than $700 million, at a reported $5.5 billion valuation, for a two-year-old hardware startup built around a costly premise: the next constraint on AI infrastructure is moving data between chips.…
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