Neurophos

Neurophos is an Austin, Texas semiconductor company, spun out of Duke University in 2020, building photonic AI inference silicon. Its Optical Processing Unit (OPU) integrates over a million micron-scale dynamic optical metasurface modulators — technology descended from metamaterials research — onto a single chip, performing the matrix multiplications behind AI inference in light rather than electrons. The company markets the T100 OPU as a drop-in data-center alternative to GPUs, publishing chip and server configurations rated at 235 TOPS/W with HBM-backed memory, and lists Triton and JAX as supported software frameworks. Neurophos raised a $110M Series A in January 2026 led by Gates Frontier with M12, Carbon Direct, Aramco Ventures and Bosch Ventures. It sells hardware, not software services: there is no developer program, no public API and no SDK. The only machine-readable surfaces at its domain are an llms.txt and the Wix-platform site MCP endpoint that llms.txt advertises.

Neurophos is listed with 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Photonics, Optical Computing, Inference, and AI Accelerators.

Neurophos’ developer surface includes engineering blog, authentication, product news, and 10 more developer resources.

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11.4/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 11/100 agent aware Front door AI 5/6 prominent Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →

1 API 1 MCP Servers

Company PhotonicsOptical ComputingInference AI Accelerators SemiconductorsMetamaterialsData Center Deep Tech MCP

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 11.4/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 2.4 / 17

Access Clarity 0.0 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.3 / 11

Contract Governance 0.5 / 10

Discoverability 6.4 / 9

Regulatory Posture 2.3 / 15

Agent readiness — 11/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

Machine-Readable Contract +18 pts — api_specs includes an OpenAPI document
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Rate-Limit Signaling +7 pts — OpenAPI responses document X-RateLimit-* / RateLimit headers (verified), else a rate_limits artifact or RateLimits link (documented)

11 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Contract Quality scores 0.0 — up to +25.0 composite points
Access Clarity scores 0.0 — up to +20.0 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 14.3 — up to +17.1 composite points

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Standards implemented 1

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

measured — observed by APIs.io (verified)

APIs 1

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Neurophos Site MCP

A live, unauthenticated Model Context Protocol endpoint served from the neurophos.com host and advertised in the company's own llms.txt. It is provided by the Wix site platform ...

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

Neurophos MCP Server

Remote MCP server at www.neurophos.com over HTTP; 9 tools listed.

MCP SERVER

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Neurophos Authentication

none/bearer-token · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Neurophos Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC

SECURITY

Resources

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

MCPServer

MCPServer

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

WellKnown

WellKnown

Design & Contract 1

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conformance

Conformance

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Authentication

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Contact

Contact

Company 4

The organization behind the API

Blog

Website

News

Careers

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

SecondaryMarket

SecondaryMarket

Source (apis.yml)

aid: neurophos
name: Neurophos
description: 'Neurophos is an Austin, Texas semiconductor company, spun out of Duke University in 2020, building photonic
  AI inference silicon. Its Optical Processing Unit (OPU) integrates over a million micron-scale dynamic optical metasurface
  modulators — technology descended from metamaterials research — onto a single chip, performing the matrix multiplications
  behind AI inference in light rather than electrons. The company markets the T100 OPU as a drop-in data-center alternative
  to GPUs, publishing chip and server configurations rated at 235 TOPS/W with HBM-backed memory, and lists Triton and JAX
  as supported software frameworks. Neurophos raised a $110M Series A in January 2026 led by Gates Frontier with M12, Carbon
  Direct, Aramco Ventures and Bosch Ventures. It sells hardware, not software services: there is no developer program, no
  public API and no SDK. The only machine-readable surfaces at its domain are an llms.txt and the Wix-platform site MCP endpoint
  that llms.txt advertises.'
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  gated_conflict: 'x-api-posture: private but 1 published API entry'
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  probe_state: covered
  source:
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://static.wixstatic.com/media/79aa3c_0cf41cb45de44d92ab97f571e6d733ff~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_1942,h_931,al_c/79aa3c_0cf41cb45de44d92ab97f571e6d733ff~mv2.jpg
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/neurophos/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-api-posture: no-product-api
x-api-posture-basis: observed
x-api-posture-note: 'It sells hardware, not software services: there is no developer program, no public API and no SDK.'
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: enrichment-pipeline
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-08-04'
modified: '2026-10-06'
tags:
- Company
- Photonics
- Optical Computing
- Inference
- AI Accelerators
- Semiconductors
- Metamaterials
- Data Center
- Deep Tech
- MCP
tags_raw:
- Company
- photonics
- optical-computing
- ai-inference
- ai-accelerators
- semiconductors
- metamaterials
- data-center
- deep-tech
- mcp
- Data-Center
- AI Inference
apis:
- name: Neurophos Site MCP
  description: A live, unauthenticated Model Context Protocol endpoint served from the neurophos.com host and advertised in
    the company's own llms.txt. It is provided by the Wix site platform rather than authored by Neurophos, and exposes nine
    tools over the public marketing site — business details, site search, site API-doc search, anonymous visitor-token minting,
    and generic Wix REST call/execute tools. No tool exposes the T100 OPU, its runtime, or any Neurophos compute service;
    this is a site-content agent surface, not a product API.
  humanURL: https://www.neurophos.com/llms.txt
  baseURL: https://www.neurophos.com/_api/mcp
  tags:
  - MCP
  - Agent access
  - Site Content
  tags_raw:
  - mcp
  - agent-access
  - site-content
  properties:
  - type: MCPServer
    url: mcp/neurophos-mcp.yml
  - type: LLMsTxt
    url: llms/neurophos-llms.txt
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/neurophos-authentication.yml
  x-surface: platform-generated
  x-platform: wix
  x-platform-surface: site-mcp
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- url: https://www.neurophos.com/news
  type: Blog
- type: Website
  url: https://www.neurophos.com/
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/neurophos-mcp.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/neurophos-llms.txt
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/neurophos-well-known.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/neurophos-authentication.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/neurophos-domain-security.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/neurophos-conformance.yml
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/Neurophos
- type: News
  url: https://www.neurophos.com/resources/news
- type: Careers
  url: https://www.neurophos.com/careers
- type: Contact
  url: https://www.neurophos.com/contact
- type: SecondaryMarket
  url: https://forgeglobal.com/neurophos_stock/
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-04'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 7
  pass: local-v1
x-coverage:
  state: covered
  detail: Neurophos is a photonic-silicon company with no developer program — no OpenAPI, no SDK, no docs/api/developer subdomain
    resolves. What it does serve from its own host, and what was captured verbatim here, is an llms.txt and the live unauthenticated
    Wix site MCP endpoint (9 tools) that llms.txt advertises.
  evidence:
  - url: https://www.neurophos.com/llms.txt
    status: 200
  - url: https://www.neurophos.com/_api/mcp
    status: 200
  - url: https://api.neurophos.com/
    status: 0
  checked: '2026-08-04'

Neurophos API — frequently asked questions

Does Neurophos have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 API from Neurophos, including Neurophos Site MCP.

How do I authenticate with the Neurophos API?

Neurophos uses bearer-token authentication (none/bearer-token · 2 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Neurophos Authentication.

Does Neurophos have an MCP server?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for Neurophos: Remote MCP server at www.neurophos.com over HTTP; 9 tools listed.

Is the Neurophos API ready for AI agents?

Neurophos has a Kin Score of 11.4 out of 100 (emerging) and an Agent Readiness score of 11.2 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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