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Celestial AI

Celestial AI is a Machine Learning (ML) accelerator company that has developed a proprietary technology platform which enables the next generation of high-performance computing solutions. Celestial AI’s mission is to transform data parallel computing with a proprietary Photonic Fabric™ technology platform which uses light for data movement both within chip and between chips.

POET Technologies

Advancements in data communications have driven robust silicon photonics technology and volume manufacturing ecosystems that are ripe for commercial implementation of ML and high-performance computing (HPC) solutions which leverage integrated silicon photonics for data movement.

Celestial AI

Data center disaggregation is imperitive.

Hyperscale data centers are unable to decouple memory scaling from compute.

Enter optical interconnect technology, i.e. using photonics to move data at lightspeed.

C AI's optical interconnect platform creates an environment of optical scalability and allows for compute and memory to be disaggregated, opening the potential for memory pooling and an order-of-magnitude increase in data movement.

POET Technologies

The POET Starlight products are packaged light engines based on POET's LightBar™ platform, which recently earned industry praise when it was demonstrated at OFC. Chip developers are working to redesign the core of computer architecture to incorporate light for communication among chips or to perform complex computations, all in an effort to eliminate the bandwidth and power-efficiency bottlenecks inherent in electronic devices. Each such chip requires one or more light sources able to provide several frequencies of light integrated into the fabric of the device. 

Celestial AI

Celestial is helmed by founder and CEO David Lazovsky, having made significant contributions to advancing optoelectronic interconnect technology in his earlier career, some of which was spent at POET Technologies where he served as Executive Chairman for the integrated photonics platform company.

POET Technologies

POET is helmed by Chairman and CEO Suresh Venkatesan, and was most recently Senior Vice President, Technology Development at GLOBALFOUNDRIES and was responsible for the company’s Technology Research and Development.  Dr. Venkatesan holds over 25 US patents, and has co-authored over 50 technical papers, several of which involve significant contributions to advancing optoelectronic interconnect technology and integrated photonics platform solutions.