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Bill Gates backs AI chip startup
Financial Express Mumbai
|January 26, 2026
BILL GATES' VC fund, Microsoft’s investment arm and Saudi Arabia’s Aramco Ventures are investing $110 million in Neurophos, a chip company that aims to develop a new technology capable of outperforming accelerators used to run AI models.
Austin-based Neurophos is developing what it calls an optical processing unit, or OPU. It’s a chip that’s made up of one million micron-scale optical processing elements that rely on phot
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