Why did the company shift from photonic computing to photonic interconnect?
Replied byNicholas Harris
Co-founder & CEO at Lightmatter
Niche: AI
Revenue: Not Publicly Disclosed/month
Location: Mountain View, California, USA
Started: 2017
As transformer-based AI models became dominant, the main challenge moved from computation to moving massive amounts of data efficiently. The company pivoted toward solving networking bottlenecks with silicon photonics.
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