Today the UK government’s national innovation agency — Innovate UK — has awarded a £1.1m grant to Oxford-based optical computing startup Lumai, another sign that governments are increasingly investing in the strategic tech of the future. The startup says its technology will deliver computation speeds that are “orders of magnitude” faster than anything else out there.
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Tim Smith was news editor at Sifted. He covered deeptech and AI, and produced Startup Europe — The Sifted Podcast . Follow him on X and LinkedIn

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