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Rigetti Computing secured a $5.8 million, three-year contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to develop superconducting quantum networking technologies in collaboration with…
Lightmatter CEO Nick Harris took the stage at the AI Infrastructure Summit in Santa Clara to argue that the next 1000X leap in AI…
PsiQuantum has raised $1 billion in Series E funding to accelerate development of the world’s first million-qubit, fault-tolerant quantum computer. The Palo Alto–based company…
Scintil Photonics, based in Grenoble, France, has raised $58 million (€50M) in a Series B round to scale its integrated photonics technology for AI…
Baseten surged to a $2.15 billion valuation with a $150 million Series D, nearly tripling its worth just six months after raising $75 million…
Jerusalem-based Teramount raised $50 million in new financing to accelerate production of its fiber-to-chip optical interconnect solutions for AI, data centers, and advanced computing.…
Multibeam Corp. raised $31 million in an oversubscribed Series B round to accelerate development of its multi-column electron beam lithography (EBL) systems for advanced…
Positron AI, a Reno-based startup focused on inference-optimized AI hardware, secured $51.6 million in an oversubscribed Series A funding round, bringing its total capital…
Germany’s Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) has deployed the world’s first operational photonic AI processor, developed by Stuttgart-based Q.ANT, marking a breakthrough in energy-efficient computing.…
FuriosaAI’s RNGD accelerator has demonstrated a 2.25x improvement in performance per watt for large language model (LLM) inference compared to traditional GPU-based systems, following…
QuiX Quantum, a Dutch startup specializing in photonic quantum computing, has secured €15 million in Series A funding to deliver its first-generation universal quantum…
Arago announced $26 million in seed funding to develop a photonic processor that uses light for AI computations. The Paris-based startup emerges from stealth…
Takanock has secured a $500 million capital commitment from ArcLight Capital Partners and DigitalBridge Group to accelerate the rollout of its integrated power infrastructure…
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