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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 publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, photonics, optical-computing, ai-inference, and ai-accelerators.

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

12.6/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 20/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-17 · rubric v0.11.0
1 APIs 1 MCP Servers
Companyphotonicsoptical-computingai-inferenceai-acceleratorssemiconductorsmetamaterialsdata-centerdeep-techmcp

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scored 2026-08-17 · rubric v0.11.0
Composite quality — 12.6/100 · minimal
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 3.9 / 20
Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.7 / 13
Governance 0.4 / 12
Discoverability 7.6 / 10
Agent readiness — 20/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10
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
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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.yml

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

Design & Contract 1

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
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.'
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-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: enrichment-pipeline
specificationVersion: '0.21'
created: '2026-08-04'
modified: '2026-08-04'
tags:
- Company
- photonics
- optical-computing
- ai-inference
- ai-accelerators
- semiconductors
- metamaterials
- data-center
- deep-tech
- mcp
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
  properties:
  - type: MCPServer
    url: mcp/neurophos-mcp.yml
  - type: LLMsTxt
    url: llms/neurophos-llms.txt
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/neurophos-authentication.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- 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'