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 ...

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

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

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 ...

As the realm of computing continues to evolve, the integration of optical technologies has emerged as a groundbreaking frontier, presenting new paradigms for processing and information transfer.

Modern communication networks must handle ever-growing volumes of data, driven by cloud services, connected devices, and real ...

For decades there has been near constant progress in reducing the size, and increasing the performance, of the circuits that power computers and smartphones. But Moore’s Law is ending as physical ...

Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. The research, published in Nature Communications, addresses one of the key challenges to engineering computers that run on light ...

A new programmable photonic chip eliminates static power consumption while enabling electrical control, promising ...

Lumai, a spin-out from the UK's University of Oxford working on a radical optical computing approach to artificial intelligence (AI) that goes beyond integrated photonics, says it has secured venture ...

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 ...