UCL spinout bags £10M to make AI ‘super brains’ for 100x faster LLM training

Oriole Networks, a UCL spinout, has raised £10mn in seed funding to build AI “super brains” that promise to accelerate the training of Large Language Models (LLMs).  Founded in 2023 by UCL scientists, the startup has developed a new method that harnesses the power of  light to connect thousands of AI chips. This results in a network of chips, where the power of each individual GPU is combined to form a “super brain.”  According to James Regan, CEO at Oriole Networks, this “enables the direct connection of a very large number of nodes enabling it to function as a single…

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