We’re building optical chips that empower the next generation of high-performance computing tasks. By processing information with light, our chips offer ultra-high speed, low latency, and low power consumption that has not been possible in traditional electronic architectures.
As a hardware + software co-design company focused on special-purpose computing, we are seeking extraordinarily talented computer scientists, physicists, mathematicians, and engineers who want to push the limits.
Interested candidates should send their C.V. along with a note describing your interest to info@lightelligence.ai.
As a hardware + software co-design company focused on special-purpose computing, we are seeking extraordinarily talented computer scientists, physicists, mathematicians, and engineers who want to push the limits.
Interested candidates should send their C.V. along with a note describing your interest to info@lightelligence.ai.
Location: China
Employees: 51-200
Total raised: $220M
Founded date: 2017
Investors 3
Funding Rounds 2
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 05.09.2025 | - | $210M | - |
| 06.02.2018 | - | $10M | - |
Mentions in press and media 9
| Date | Title | Description |
| 17.03.2026 | 15 minutes from airport to expo: Business zone draws global visitors | SHANGHAI, March 16, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- A news report from english.shanghai.gov.cn The Shanghai Eastern Hub International Business Cooperation Zone hosted its first large-scale international expo, the 2026 Appliance and Electronics World E... |
| 05.09.2025 | Chinese optical computing firm Lightelligence raises $210m from China Mobile, others | - |
| 25.07.2023 | Akhetonics raises capital for its all-optical processor prototype | Traditional processors from the likes of Intel, AMD, or Nvidia have well-known limitations around speed, energy efficiency, and electromagnetic interference. For instance, foundational chip makers like TSMC and Samsung are currently racing ... |
| 05.07.2023 | Lightelligence Revolutionizes Big Data Interconnect with World’s First Optical Network-on-Chip Processor | Domain-Specific AI Processor Unlocks New Interconnect Paradigm for Data Centers and Other High-Performance Applications, Breaking the “Memory Wall” Utilizes Advanced Vertically Stacked Packaging, Integrating Optical Network-on-Chip and Elec... |
| 22.03.2022 | Why Some Bitcoin Devs Say Lasers Can Cut Mining’s Energy Costs | Bitcoin’s energy use has long been a hot-button issue. Now some developers say the solution could lie in a more energy-efficient form of computer processing that, perhaps appropriately, uses lasers. When we consider Bitcoin’s energy use, re... |
| 15.04.2019 | Lightelligence releases prototype of its optical AI accelerator chip | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. Accelerator chips that use light rather than electrons to carry out computations promise to supercharge AI model training and inference... |
| 05.02.2018 | Out of MIT, a $21M Startup Battle Brews Over Next-Gen A.I. Chips | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints Here are the makings of an interesting tale. It involves two competing tech spinouts from MIT, and two rival CEOs who were co-authors on a key research paper. And now, each co... |
| 02.02.2018 | MIT-Born A.I. Hardware Startup Raises $10M Led by Chinese Tech Giant Baidu | Can the power of light unlock the next advances in artificial intelligence computing? MIT spinoff Lightelligence is seeking to answer that question with a new kind of AI hardware that is the "world’s first realization of deep learning ... |
| - | Lightelligence | “Lightelligence is continuously providing customers with powerful and effective computing power through a new paradigm of optoelectronic computing.” |