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Lumai

3D optical computing AI accelerator developer

lumai.ai
Headquarters
Oxford, United Kingdom
Founded year
2022
Company type
Private company
Number of employees
25–50

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Latest news about Lumai

In short: Lumai unveiled the world's first optical computing system capable of running a billion-parameter large language model in real time.

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    Lumai launches Iris Nova optical computing system

    It runs real-time billion-parameter LLM inference with 90% lower energy, higher throughput, and lower cost than GPUs. Born from Oxford research for the inference era.

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    Lumai appoints René Bonvanie as Chair of its Board

    Bonvanie, founding CMO of Palo Alto Networks, brings decades of experience to guide commercialization. Lumai expands advisory board with Professor Philip Torr and Alexander Lvovsky.

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    Lumai explores optical computing redefining AI scaling

    Head of Product Phillip Burr details 3D optics' advantages: true parallelism, zero-heat computation, quadratic scaling, and 50x performance gains.

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    Lumai wins Falling Walls Science Breakthrough of the Year 2025

    Selected from over 400 applicants, the award recognizes Lumai's transformative AI technology and optical computing innovations. CTO Dr. James Spall presented in Berlin.

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