When Light Meets Silicon: Why M12 is Betting on Photonics to Power AI’s Next Leap

When Light Meets Silicon

The rules of data center design are changing. The rapid expansion and scale of AI workloads are driving an evolution of compute and storage focused data centers into “AI Factories”—specialized facilities with power and networking requirements so big that traditional data center architectures can’t handle them. Companies investing in these facilities aren’t just buying more […]

Startups Take on AI’s Velocity Challenge

GenAI Startups

In recent years, we’ve witnessed the breakout growth stories of GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT expand into a movement that has sparked an investment frenzy in GenAI. Against a backdrop of a cooled VC market that is deploying funds at roughly 55% of 2021’s peak, GenAI is a VC hotspot unlike any other in recent memory, […]