Lumilens launches with $900M for optical AI links

Lumilens launched with $900 million in total funding, including a $700 million Series C at a $5.51 billion valuation. SiliconANGLE’s launch report says the two-year-old company supports 800-gigabit and 1.6-terabit-per-second optical links, although its order and performance figures remain company claims. For infrastructure teams tracking Eliyan’s bet that the bottleneck sits between chips, Lumilens is another reason to qualify optics before accelerator purchases turn network reach into stranded compute.