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Neurophos

Series A · Austin

Silicon photonics for AI inference

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Neurophos is rethinking the architecture of inference compute, using silicon photonics and an active programmable metasurface to perform matrix multiplications at the speed of light rather than through electronic circuits. Its optical cells are 10,000 times smaller than traditional photonic components, which is what makes the approach practical rather than merely elegant. Demand for AI compute is outpacing the planet's energy capacity and digital solutions are hitting a power wall as traditional silicon approaches its physical limits — a bottleneck the industry's current path cannot resolve.