# Lightelligence

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/lightelligence/  
**Website:** https://www.lightelligence.ai/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

Lightelligence (legal entity Shanghai Xizhi Technology Co., Ltd. / 曦智科技, founded 2017 as an MIT spin-out) builds optoelectronic hybrid computing hardware — photonic accelerators and optical interconnect fabric for AI and high-performance computing. Its product line is physical: the PACE 2 optoelectronic accelerated computing card (a PCIe Gen4 x16 accelerator built around a 128x128 optical matrix multiplier), the Gazelle optical computing evaluation board, the Photowave CXL optical interconnect, and the Lightsphere X distributed optical circuit switch, supported by the company's oMAC, oNOC and oNET optical core, network-on-chip and inter-chip network technologies. The software surface is a device-side stack — ONNX, OpenCL, PyTorch and TVM support plus a Python SDK (lt_sdk) that compiled and ran models on the optical processing unit — not a web API. As of this profile the company publishes no public web API, no OpenAPI/AsyncAPI/GraphQL contract, and no developer portal; the lightelligence-sdk package and its Read the Docs reference have both been withdrawn. Its remaining public developer-facing surface is a GitHub organization of chip design and verification tooling (Bazel Verilog build rules, RTL/UVM linters, the yis interface-spec generator) and an Optical Computing Developer Community of research cases and papers.

## Kin Score — 11.7 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-09-02 under rubric 0.18.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 11.7).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 57.4 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 2.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 7.1 |
| Commercial Clarity | 21.1 |
| Access Clarity | 21.1 |

## Agent readiness — 2.5 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Security (1)

- **Lightelligence Domain Security** — TLSv1.3

## Plans (1)

- **Lightelligence Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Company, Optical Computing, Photonics, Semiconductors, AI Infrastructure, Hardware Accelerators, High Performance Computing, Optical Interconnect, Data-Center

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/lightelligence/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.