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Developer of photonic AI accelerator optimized for energy efficiency and high throughput. The company has built a photonic AI accelerator that leverages light as a computing principle. The chip maximizes performance per watt and per dollar, to power AI workloads with significantly lower energy and cost overhead. Its architecture is designed to deliver reductions in energy consumption. The AI unit accelerates…

High Tech · AI Infrastructure, · Paris, France · EST 2024

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Developer of photonic AI accelerator optimized for energy efficiency and high throughput. The company has built a photonic AI accelerator that leverages light as a computing principle. The chip maximizes performance per watt and per dollar, to power AI workloads with significantly lower energy and cost overhead. Its architecture is designed to deliver reductions in energy consumption. The AI unit accelerates high-volume AI tasks with proprietary multi-physics computing core. Arago operates in the AI Infrastructure, Artificial Intelligence sectors. The company focuses on Photonics Based. The company has raised $25.9M in Seed funding. Notable investors include Earlybird, Protagonist, Visionaries Tomorrow, GenerativeIQ, C4 Ventures, Acequia Capital. Arago was founded in 2024 and is headquartered in Paris, France.

Business model

AI Infrastructure > Enabling Technologies > Hardware > Processors > AI Accelerators > Photonics Based

Team background

College Wise > ETH Zurich, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich

Institutional investors

EarlybirdProtagonistVisionaries TomorrowGenerativeIQC4 VenturesAcequia CapitalBertrand SerletOlivier PomelThomas WolfChristophe FreyJack AbrahamJean Laurent Philippe

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