Austin-based Neurophos, which develops a photon-based “Optical Processing Unit” to replace GPUs in AI training, raised $110M led by Bill Gates' Gates Frontier Bloomberg 2026-01-23 Edward Ludlow Neurophos, Optical Processing Unit, Bill Gates', Austin Related Coverage Neurophos Secures $110 Million Series A to Launch Exaflop-Scale Photonic AI Chips Neurophos From invisibility cloaks to AI chips: Neurophos raises $110M to build tiny optical processors for inferencing TechCrunch · Ram Iyer Something big is happening in compute. ⚡ Today in AI inference, GPUs and TPUs spend most of their time and energy moving data … Mark Weber