Heavenly artificial intelligence collects $ 250 million, as it looks to accelerate the links between artificial intelligence chips

Written by Stephen Nils

SANta Clara, California (Reuters) – Heavenly AI, one of the emerging companies in Silicon Valley that aims to break the main speed restrictions in artificial intelligence, said on Tuesday that it raised an additional $ 250 million in investment capital, which raised its total to $ 515 million.

The heavenly AI is clicking on the photonic – a technique that uses light, instead of electrical signals – to create quick links between intelligence and memory slices.

The speed of this connection, a scale called the frequency range of memory, has become very essential in the advancement of artificial intelligence systems to the point that it is one of the factors that determines whether the slide is subject to controls of US government export such as that designed to reduce the progress of China.

Nowadays, the upper NVIDIA prevails in the frequency range of memory with ownership techniques called NVLINK and NVSWITCH. This has led to the operation of the technology race between startups and a group of financing to find alternatives that can be used by other chips companies. I raised the heavenly Ai competitors, Lightmatter, Ayar Labs $ 850 million and $ 370 million, respectively.

The heavenly AI, supported by the adventure arm of the advanced advanced devices from NVIDIA, develops a technology that can sit like a bridge between two numbers or more and uses a different type of optical technology from its competitors.

Dave Lazovsky, CEO of “photosynthesis”, said the speed with space and energy, two things in the design of each chip.

“There are no good answers outside Nafidia,” Lazovsky said in an interview at the headquarters of Santa Clara. “What we created with light tissue does the same, but at a different level of energy efficiency and cumin.”

Celestial Ai said that the new round of funding was led by Fidelity Management & Research and joined by Blackrock, MAVERICK CAPITAL, Tiger Global Management and Lip-Bu Tan, former CEO of Cadency Design Systems for chips design. The joining of the current investors was AMD Ventures, Koch Technologies Technologies, Temasek, Xora Innovation, fully owned by Temasek, Porsche Automobil Holding and Engine Ventures.

(Participated in the reports of Stephen Nils in Santa Clara, California; edited by Jimmy Farid)