Igor CARRON - CEO and Co-Founder, LightOn, France Bringing Light to Artificial Intelligence (Machine Learning) by developing novel optics-based computing hardware.

1. ORGANIZED BY
JUNE 20TH
2019
French Q-Startups Pitches
Igor CARRON
CEO & Co-Founder
LightOn.ai, France

2. Let’s bring Light to AI
Igor CARRON, CEO and Co-Founder
LightOn.ai

3. The Footprint of Machine Learning
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Optical Processing Unit

5. Leveraging Light Wave Interferences in 3D with COTS
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OPU
Results
Data pre-
processing
Laser CameraOptical Random
Projections
DAC ADC
Data in Data out 010001…01111001010101…
Data
processing
CPU / GPU
“Big & Fat” Data
Spatial Light Modulator
OPU
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6. Our Market
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AI is booming: CAGR 45% in EU, 50% in US, 75% in Asia
→ Huge challenges for hardware, at end of Moore’s law
AI accelerator chip market growing at CAGR of 35 % to $ 59 B by 2025
[Business Wire, 2018]
Medical data
fusion
Content
recommendation
Industry of
the future
Identified
verticals
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7. Go-To Market
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• Cloud platform already operational with OPU prototypes at scale
• Seamless integration with existing ML frameworks
OPU prototype
CPU GPU
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• 10s of beta-users already active, about 150 expressions of interest
• PoCs with several companies
→ goal : first on-premise OPUs in 2020

8. Use cases where Lighton’s OPU already shines
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Image
classification
Recommender
systems
Graph
analysis
Anomaly
detection
NLP
Video
classification
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9. A Deeper Insight
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Same accuracy as GPU-only | x7 Faster | Energy divided by 20
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10. LightOn’s Next Steps
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Hardware improvement: Faster, Smaller, Cheaper
Build a community:
An ecosystem of users around LightOn Cloud and open-
source software.
A pathfinder to 2nd Quantum revolution hardware
development: interference and intrication
→ readying when sources/sensors are at scale
→ hybrid optical / quantum / classical computing
→ applications to ML and beyond

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LightOn.ai
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4 Co-Founders
with worldwide scientific recognition
8-people engineering team
Optics
Machine Learning
Embedded / Cloud
Mechanical