Luminous Computing announced today that it raised $105M in a Series A round, with participation from investors including Gigafund, Bill Gates, 8090 Partners, Neo, Third Kind Venture Capital, Alumni Ventures Group, Strawberry Creek Ventures, Horsley Bridge, Modern Venture Partners, among others.

Luminous is a group of highly-motivated pragmatists on a mission to build useful, usable, safe AI. The hardest problem and the biggest barrier to that vision is building a supercomputer capable of running tomorrow's AI applications. By building systems that provide order-of-magnitude improvements in performance and scalability, Luminous will drive radical improvements in technology to enable the world's most sophisticated artificial intelligence.