We just don’t have the hardware that can run those algorithms.” What’s frustrating is that we have the software to address monumental, revolutionary problems that humans can’t even begin to solve. We can interact with computers in natural language and ask them to write a piece of code or even an essay, and the output will be better than most humans could provide.

“It’s an incredible time to be a part of the AI industry,” said Marcus Gomez, CEO and co-founder, Luminous. “At Gigafund, we focus only on founders that we believe have a path to building the most significant companies in the world” Life Sciences Industry Digitizing To Meet Pandemic-Related Demands Luminous is building the supercomputer that satisfies those demands. The AI community knows how to deliver all of these capabilities from an algorithmic perspective, but more compute, bandwidth and memory are desperately needed. Despite substantial progress made towards those goals, the world is still waiting for these superhuman applications. Silicon Valley is on the verge of delivering ubiquitous access to the kinds of capabilities that showed up 30 years ago in Star Trek: eliminating car accidents with self-driving cars, detecting and curing diseases through highly personalized drug discovery and automated health analytics, allowing anyone to query the entire database of human knowledge, and letting people talk to computers seamlessly, in real time.

Luminous Computing announced that it raised $105M in a Series A round, with participation from investors including Gigafund, Bill Gates, 8090 Partners, Neo, Third Kind Venture Capital, Alumni Ventures Group, Strawberry Creek Ventures, Horsley Bridge, Modern Venture Partners, among others. Emerging from stealth mode, Luminous is re-imagining the entire machine learning hardware/software stack

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