New photonic architecture will power AI inference for models exceeding 20 trillion parameters at up to 10,000 tokens per second per user SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 1, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Volantis, a semiconductor company building a new category of AI inference system, today announced an $88 million Series A co-led by Lachy Groom and Abstract Ventures, with participation from John Doerr, VXI Capital, Triatomic and Susa Ventures. The round also includes angel investors Dwarkesh Patel, Naveen Rao and Sholto Douglas. Volantis is building a new AI inference architecture that eliminates the tradeoff between memory capacity and bandwidth.
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