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3D optical computing AI accelerator developer
lumai.ai- Headquarters
- Oxford, United Kingdom
- Founded year
- 2022
- Company type
- Private company
- Number of employees
- 25–50
Latest news about Lumai
Company announcements
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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.
Media coverage
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Optical Computer Runs on a Billion Parameter AI
Lumai has unveiled what it describes as 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 the World’s First Optical Computing System for Real-Time, Billion-Parameter LLM Inference
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...
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Dr. Xianxin Guo, CEO and Co-Founder of Lumai - Interview Series
Dr. Xianxin Guo, CEO and Co-Founder of Lumai, is a physicist and deep-tech entrepreneur specializing in optical computing and AI hardware, with a PhD in...
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Lumai Secures Funding to Advance 3D Optical Computing Technology – ICO Optics
The future of artificial intelligence computing is at a turning point, and Lumai—a cutting-edge startup born out of the University ...
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