Volantis raises $88 million to link AI processors and memory with laser light.

The startup says optical connections built from established VCSEL technology could let far more memory chips communicate with each AI accelerator.

By TomorrowNews · AI-assisted briefing
Source published 01 Oct 2026 · Briefing published 2 October 2026

AI-generated illustration of a fictional AI processor connected by beams of light to surrounding memory tiles; it is not a photograph or engineering schematic of Volantis hardware. — AI-generated illustration — not a photograph of the event. The chip package is fictional and does not depict Volantis's actual design. · TomorrowNews / AI-generated illustration

Reuters reported that San Francisco-based Volantis raised $88 million in venture capital. Its design replaces short-reach electrical links with laser light and, the company says, could connect as many as 220 memory chips around one GPU.

Volantis plans to use vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers, components already produced at large scale for consumer-device sensing. Chief executive Tapa Ghosh said the company aims to deliver a chip next year; the product and performance claims remain unproven in commercial deployment.

Go to the source

This is an original summary, not a republication of the full report.

Read the original at Reuters ↗

Keep looking forward

Conceptual digital-asset security center reinforcing cold-storage key vaults and threat sharing

AI-generated illustration — not a photograph of the event

Digital-asset cybersecurity Reuters

Crypto exchanges tighten defenses after the Binance heist

Major crypto exchanges are reinforcing key-storage controls and calling for faster information-sharing after Binance disclosed a record $6.3 billion theft.

31 Oct 2026Read briefing ↗

Conceptual AI data-center financing review with a lower capital gauge and abstract neural network

AI-generated illustration — not a photograph of the event

Artificial-intelligence financing Reuters

OpenAI reportedly cuts its funding target as tech markets retreat

OpenAI reduced the target for its latest funding round to about $20 billion as investors reassessed the cost and returns of the AI buildout, Reuters reported citing the Financial Times.

31 Oct 2026Read briefing ↗

Conceptual aerospace-electronics factory inspecting sealed guidance and sensor modules

AI-generated illustration — not a photograph of the event

Air-defense procurement and production Reuters

US approves a $2.1 billion Patriot interceptor sale with 2030s deliveries

The US State Department approved a possible sale of 500 Patriot PAC-3 interceptors to Ukraine, but newly manufactured missiles are not expected until the early 2030s.

30 Oct 2026Read briefing ↗