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Lightmatter

Lightmatter is a Mountain View, California photonic supercomputer company building optical interconnect and compute products for AI infrastructure. Its flagship Passage line of 3D-stacked photonic interposers and co-packaged optics, including the Passage M1000 superchip and the Passage L20 and L200 pluggables, deliver up to 114 Tbps of optical bandwidth and target frontier-scale AI training and inference fabrics. Lightmatter also ships the Envise general-purpose photonic AI accelerator and the Guide VLSP Light Engine universal light source, and provides reference systems and evaluation kits. The company holds a 4.4 billion dollar valuation on roughly 850 million dollars raised as of late 2024 and partners with TSMC, GlobalFoundries, OIF, IEEE, and OCP. Lightmatter does not expose a public developer API, so this profile is hardware-, research-, and press-focused with an intentionally empty apis list.

Lightmatter is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include AI Hardware, Photonics, Interconnect, Accelerator, and Optical.

Lightmatter’s developer surface includes engineering blog and 13 more developer resources.

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
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Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 0.4 / 20
Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.8 / 10
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Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
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Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
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Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: lightmatter
name: Lightmatter
description: Lightmatter is a Mountain View, California photonic supercomputer company building optical interconnect and compute
  products for AI infrastructure. Its flagship Passage line of 3D-stacked photonic interposers and co-packaged optics, including
  the Passage M1000 superchip and the Passage L20 and L200 pluggables, deliver up to 114 Tbps of optical bandwidth and target
  frontier-scale AI training and inference fabrics. Lightmatter also ships the Envise general-purpose photonic AI accelerator
  and the Guide VLSP Light Engine universal light source, and provides reference systems and evaluation kits. The company
  holds a 4.4 billion dollar valuation on roughly 850 million dollars raised as of late 2024 and partners with TSMC, GlobalFoundries,
  OIF, IEEE, and OCP. Lightmatter does not expose a public developer API, so this profile is hardware-, research-, and press-focused
  with an intentionally empty apis list.
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
position: Provider
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/lightmatter.png
tags:
- AI Hardware
- Photonics
- Interconnect
- Accelerator
- Optical
- Datacenter
- Co-Packaged Optics
- Silicon
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/lightmatter/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-05-23'
modified: '2026-05-23'
specificationVersion: '0.20'
apis: []
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/lightmatter-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://lightmatter.co
- type: Vision
  url: https://lightmatter.co/vision
- type: Product
  url: https://lightmatter.co/products/passage
- type: Product
  url: https://lightmatter.co/products/envise
- type: Product
  url: https://lightmatter.co/products/guide
- type: PressRelease
  url: https://lightmatter.co/press-release/lightmatter-unveils-passage-m1000-photonic-superchip-worlds-fastest-ai-interconnect
- type: Analysis
  url: https://futurumgroup.com/insights/lightmatter-solving-how-to-interconnect-millions-of-chips/
- type: Analysis
  url: https://research.contrary.com/company/lightmatter
- type: Analysis
  url: https://tspasemiconductor.substack.com/p/lightmatter-passage-a-comprehensive
- type: Careers
  url: https://lightmatter.co/careers
- type: Blog
  url: https://lightmatter.co/blog
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/lightmatter
- type: Twitter
  url: https://twitter.com/lightmatter_co
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com