Lightmatter

“Lightmatter is leading the revolution in networking for AI.” We’re honored to be recognized within the Lazard VGB AI Infra 40 list, which spotlights industry innovators reinforcing solutions across the AI infrastructure stack. At Lightmatter, we’re reinventing how chips can talk and calculate to power the AI revolution with light. Read the full report here: https://lnkd.in/gd2UGSiQ

Join us in welcoming Rich Beyer and Robin Washington to our board of directors! Today, they join Lightmatter to support and advise the company as we work to power the next generation of computing. Richard brings over three decades of executive leadership experience across the semiconductor and telecommunications industries, and currently sits on the board of directors for Micron Technology, Inc. Robin is a board member of Alphabet, Honeywell International and Salesforce and currently serves as Chair of the leadership development, inclusion and compensation committee for Alphabet and lead independent director for Salesforce. She has over three decades of finance and operations experience in the technology and life sciences industries. https://lnkd.in/gfvsMecA Lightmatter is entering a phase of massive growth as we continue to scale our team to revolutionize the future of computing. To find more information about open roles, visit https://lnkd.in/eArUsQe

Our co-founder and CEO Nicholas Harris and newly-appointed CFO Simona Jankowski, CFA sat down last week with Ian King and Nick Turner at Bloomberg to discuss Lightmatter’s growth trajectory, the chip landscape, and what we see for the future. “Lightmatter believes that the use of artificial intelligence software is sparking a wholesale change in the computing industry. The massive size of new processors needed to develop AI software — along with the amount of data and energy required — mean greater efficiency is a necessity” – Ian King, Reporter, Bloomberg. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/gR8FJU6b

Join us in welcoming Simona Jankowski, Lightmatter’s new Chief Financial Officer! Simona joins Lightmatter from NVIDIA, where she was vice president of investor relations and strategic finance. Prior to this role, she was a managing director at Goldman Sachs, where she led equity research for the hardware and communications technology sectors and managed the Global Investment Research office in San Francisco. With 20+ years of experience, Simona has a proven track record of nurturing investor relationships and managing financial strategies. https://lnkd.in/gcxevKkk Simona’s appointment comes at a time of significant company growth, and we’re continuing to scale our team that’s revolutionizing the future of computing. For more information about open roles, visit https://lnkd.in/eArUsQe.

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Excited to share that today, Lightmatter CEO Nicholas Harris and Chief Scientist Darius Bunandar were recognized on The Boston Globe’s Tech Power Players 50 list! The feature identifies Nicholas and Darius as innovative players in Boston’s business and technology scene, pointing to Lightmatter’s work in advancing the photonics industry. Thank you Boston Globe Media for including Lightmatter amongst great industry leaders. https://lnkd.in/ejURiEhW

Lightmatter CEO Nicholas Harris recently sat down with Will Knight at WIRED to discuss Passage, the technology making it possible to shuttle data between chips with 100x the usual bandwidth. “Data today generally moves around inside computers—and in the case of training AI algorithms, between chips inside a data center—via electrical signals. Sometimes parts of those interconnections are converted to fiber-optic links for great bandwidth, but converting signals back and forth between optical and electrical creates a communications bottleneck. Instead, Lightmatter wants to directly connect hundreds of thousands or even millions of GPUs—those silicon chips that are crucial to AI training—using optical links. Reducing the conversion bottleneck should allow data to move between chips at much higher speeds than is possible today, potentially enabling distributed AI supercomputers of extraordinary scale.” https://lnkd.in/g-_UYJ-r 

Lightmatter CEO Nicholas Harris recently participated at Sequoia Capital's event, AI Ascent, diving into what’s next for data centers and powering the next generation of AI models. “It turns out that the power of AI models scales with the amount of compute that you have and the spend for these systems is astronomical…there’s going to be an enormous amount of pressure on companies to deliver a return on this investment” - Nicholas Harris, CEO of Lightmatter. Tune in to learn more about the future of data centers on YouTube. Thank you for having us, Sequoia Capital! https://lnkd.in/gDCf3j-A

The Lightmatter team is excited to be on the ground and speaking at the OFC Conference next week. Catch live sessions featuring CEO and Founder Nicholas Harris, Co-Founder and Chief Scientist Darius Bunandar and Director of Product Management Rebecca Schaevitz as they discuss interconnect bottlenecks and break down the role of optics in AI clusters. Register here: Register and tune in on 3/24 from 4:00-6:30pm PT and 3/26 from 2:40-3:00pm PT and 7:30-9:30pm PT to catch their sessions live. #Lightmatter #photonics #datacenters #OFC24 https://lnkd.in/d9qcvSn