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February 15, 2023

Lumai lands £1.1m grant to achieve 'world’s fastest computation' and power the AI revolution

The startup is using optical computation to make AI computation faster and more efficient


Tim Smith

3 min read

Lumai's cofounders, including Tim Weil (second left)

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

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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