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The promise of artificial intelligence and the better future it could bring has been around for a long time. However, the execution of AI has run up against some modern-day limitations concerning compute and memory.

A new generation of AI startups is seemingly setting out to push past those boundaries. is one鈥攁nd investors seem intrigued with its promise.

The Mountain View, California-based supercomputer company closed a $105 million Series A Thursday from investors including co-founder .

Other investors in the round include , , , , , , , and others. Founded in 2018, the company has raised $115 million to date, according to 萝莉视频 data.

Luminous is building a supercomputer capable of running more sophisticated AI applications鈥攕omething difficult for most companies that can鈥檛 afford the expensive, power-consuming hardware currently needed to run complex AI systems.

鈥淚t鈥檚 an incredible time to be a part of the AI industry,鈥� said , CEO and co-founder of Luminous. 鈥淎I has become superhuman. 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. What鈥檚 frustrating is that we have the software to address monumental, revolutionary problems that humans can鈥檛 even begin to solve. We just don鈥檛 have the hardware that can run those algorithms.鈥�

Luminous is not the only company looking at this problem鈥攐r attracting investor interest. Sunnyvale, California-based AI computer system developer raised a $250 million Series F last November.

Just last month, San Jose, California-based , a developer of data center and edge AI computing solutions, closed a $56 million Series A.

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