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Photonic interconnect for scaling accelerator fabrics.

Current version

Passage M1000

Entry cost

System sales

Changes / 30d

0

The short answers

What is the latest version of Lightmatter?
The current shipped version of Lightmatter is Passage M1000.
How much does Lightmatter cost?
Lightmatter has no published flat entry price. System sales
What AI model does Lightmatter use?
Lightmatter runs primarily on n/a.

Source: Lightmatter (no public source page recorded) · Reusable under CC BY 4.0 — cite Tomorrow

Capabilities

  • Photonic interposer
  • 114 Tbps
  • 3D packaging

Pricing

System sales

Entry price over time

Not enough pricing history yet — we start charting from the second observation.

Geek mode

Models under the hood

  • n/a

    Provider undisclosed

    disclosed

Context window

—

Public API

no

Multi-model routing

no

Stack signals

  • GlobalFoundries

Shared model stack

Other tracked products running on the same foundation models — a quick read on how much of the catalog moves when one of these models changes.

green disclosed · amber inferred · grey unattributed. Aliases are folded into one model; provider concentration counts only models with an established vendor.

Reported scale

Reference data. Each figure is whatever the source actually said — weekly users, downloads, revenue run-rate — with its own definition and date. These are not comparable between tools and are never used to rank anything.

No public usage figure on record for this product.

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Change history

No changes recorded yet.

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Lightmatter compared

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How to cite this page

Free to cite and reuse under CC BY 4.0. Permalink: https://tomorrow.aliensquad.ai/tools/lightmatter

APA
Tomorrow. (2026). Lightmatter — version, pricing and model stack [Data set entry]. AlienSquad. Retrieved 2026-11-08, from https://tomorrow.aliensquad.ai/tools/lightmatter
BibTeX
@misc{tomorrow-tools-lightmatter,
  author       = {{Tomorrow}},
  title        = {Lightmatter — version, pricing and model stack},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {AlienSquad},
  howpublished = {\url{https://tomorrow.aliensquad.ai/tools/lightmatter}},
  note         = {Accessed: 2026-11-08}
}