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Paris startup Arago raises EUR 22.1 million for energy-efficient photonic AI chip

Paris based Arago raised EUR 22.1 million in an oversubscribed seed round, led by Earlybird, Protagonist and Visionaries Tomorrow, to commercialise JEF, a photonic AI chip it says cuts energy use against GPUs.

Reported Editor-read EU-Startups, 8 July 2025

What it does not test. Does not establish that the chip has shipped or been validated against GPUs at production scale.

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