![]() He had been doing various types of artificial intelligence work for about a decade at this point. But when he came to Silicon Valley, he was disappointed and frustrated because the gap between what he thought was possible and what was actually happening on the ground was still too big. “I didn't get my driver's licence until I was 22 because I was so sure that self driving cars would be readily available,” says Gomez. He graduated from Stanford with a degree in computer science and then worked in the field of artificial intelligence, both during his degree work and later for Google before meeting Nahmias in 2018 when they came together to form Luminous Computing. He was inspired by Steve Jobs’ admonition to think big and came to Silicon Valley to attend Stanford because he wanted to work on solving foundational human problems and artificial intelligence was supposed to be the bedrock on which next step innovations would come from. My exposure to cutting edge technology was through pop science magazines,” says Gomez. ![]() “Growing up I didn't really have exposure to technology. They settled in a small farm town in Minnesota. Gomez is the son of Indian immigrants who came to the US with less than $1,000 to their name. Investors include Modern Venture Partners, Horsley Bridge Partners, Third Kind Venture Capital, 8090 Partners, Bill Gates, Neo, Alumni Partners, Strawberry Creek Ventures, Gigafund and others. Their latest A round was raised on Mafor $105 million. The company has attracted $126 million in funding to date, according to Gomez. ![]() However, the promise of the concept and the pedigree and progress the founders and their growing team of engineers have made to date has allowed the company to attract the level of venture capital required to build and produce a new photonics-based supercomputer. Four years into the creation of Luminous, the company is still about 20 months away from production, though Gomez says that the company already has customers ready to go once they do. ![]()
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