UK research agency ARIA's inference lab deploys Lumai's optical computing servers
Oxford spinout Lumai says its Iris system is the first optical platform in the £50m Scaling Inference Lab, where it will be tested in a commercial data centre; its power-saving claims have not been independently checked.
Key facts
- Lab: ARIA's £50m Scaling Inference Lab, run by CommonAI
- Iris targets the prefill stage of inference
- Lumai claims up to 90% lower power use
- Lumai was spun out of Oxford in 2021