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OLIX

Semiconductors · London, United Kingdom · Founded 2024

Formerly known as Flux | Optical compute infrastructure for frontier AI MoreLess

Flux is positioned to address the escalating computational demands of the artificial intelligence sector. The company designs and manufactures optical processors specifically engineered for training and running inference on large AI models. This technology is presented as an alternative to traditional silicon-based chips, such as GPUs.

The core value proposition centers on overcoming the anticipated limitations of current computing capacity, which struggles to keep pace with the growth of AI. Flux's optical computing solutions aim to deliver higher performance while consuming significantly less energy, thereby addressing the physical and power constraints associated with scaling silicon-based infrastructure.

The business model appears to be focused on the design and manufacturing of specialized hardware. The target market consists of entities developing or deploying large-scale AI, which are facing challenges with the cost and energy requirements of existing computing hardware. The company is establishing its operations in London's King's Cross AI hub.

Keywords: optical computing, optical processors, AI hardware, large AI models, inference, model training, energy efficiency, high-performance computing, silicon alternative, AGI infrastructure

Talent graph

OLIX's talent

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Team profiled 7 named & role-tagged
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Key operators 2 quality Hidden — book a demo/100
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Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.

Investors

21 investors on OLIX's cap table

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Series A 13 investors entered at this stage
Hummingbird Ventures
Plural
LocalGlobe
Vertex Ventures
Entrepreneurs First
Fundomo
ARM
Hudson River Trading
Reed Hastings
Crane Venture Partners
Creandum
Phoenix Court Group
Transition
Series B+ 8 investors entered at this stage
Creandum
Phoenix Court Group
Reed Hastings
Fundomo
Crane Venture Partners
ARM
Hudson River Trading
Transition

Global footprint

Where OLIX has talent and traffic

Workforce by country
6 countries with
team presence
🇬🇧 United Kingdom81.7%
🇺🇸 United States11.3%
🇨🇦 Canada2.8%
🇦🇲 Armenia1.4%
🇩🇪 Germany1.4%
Top 5 of 6 shown
Web traffic by country
13K monthly visits
across markets
🇬🇧 United Kingdom49.2%
🇺🇸 United States26.9%
🇦🇲 Armenia11.5%
🇮🇳 India4.6%
🇨🇦 Canada2.3%
Top 5 markets shown

Market sentiment

What the market is saying about OLIX

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about OLIX on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.

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