Investors pour into photonics startups to stop data centers from hogging energy and to speed up AI

Oriole Networks, a British company with plans for a completely new networking infrastructure for AI supercomputing clusters that is based on using light instead of electricity to transmit data, has raised $22 million from the London-based venture capital firm Plural.

" Different photonic companies have different ideas about how to use the technology to revamp data centers ... but Oriole Networks’ may have the most sweeping vision, using photonics to connect every AI chip in a supercomputing cluster to every other chip in the entire cluster."

Jeremy Kahn - Fortune - Read the full article here

UCL professor's discovery could halve energy use for data centres

Oriole Networks raises £10m to produce light beams that could stop energy-hungry AI training programs from ‘burning the planet down’.

"This is an amazing technology answering the question of how we can have more generative AI without burning the planet down"

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Breakthrough could help train AI 100 times faster while cutting energy use

London-based spinout Oriole Networks has raised £10m to build optical networks between GPUs in AI clusters 

"Oriole’s solution comes from the work of professor George Zervas at UCL, who’s been working on improving computer networks since his PhD 20 years ago"

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