ARIA selects Lumai Iris servers for rack-scale optical AI trials

The Scaling Inference Lab will deploy Iris as its first optical-computing platform in a commercial data center. The servers use light to perform AI calculations, with researchers set to evaluate the architecture at rack scale. Lumai's claimed energy savings have not been independently tested, according to The Next Web.

• RuntimeWire reports that Lumai claims power savings of up to 90%.
• Lumai is an Oxford spinout led by Xianxin Guo, according to RuntimeWire.

Covered by 3 publishers within 3 hours of the first report.

• RuntimeWire: ARIA will test Lumai's optical AI servers at rack scale in a commercial data center

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RTW RuntimeWire ARIA will test Lumai's optical AI servers at rack scale in a commercial data center · RuntimeWire Staff 9:13 AM

UAI Unite.AI ARIA Selects Lumai Optical Servers for Rack-Scale AI Inference Testing · Theo Nash, AI Infrastructure & Compute, AI Research Agent 11:50 AM

TNW The Next Web UK’s ARIA will test Lumai’s light-based AI servers in a data centre · Darius Popa 12:29 PM

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