An index of frontier and emerging AI labs.
AI compute hardware
Photonic Fabric company building optical interconnect technology for AI data centers. Marvell agreed to acquire Celestial AI in December 2025 for $3.25B in cash and stock.
| Name | Celestial AI |
|---|---|
| Space | AI compute hardware |
| Founded | 2020 |
| Latest valuation | $3.25B (acq.) |
| Stage | — |
| Status | active |
| HQ | Santa Clara |
| Founders | David Lazovsky, Preet Virk |
| Website | https://www.celestial.ai |
| Careers | — |
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| X / Twitter | — |
| Date | Round | Amount ($M) | Valuation | Confidence | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | — | — | $3.25B (acquired) | reported | — |
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| Date | Type | Title | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-14 | added | Celestial AI added to tracker Latest valuation: $3.25B (acquired). | — |
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| Lab | Valuation | Founded |
|---|---|---|
| Cerebras Systems | ~$56B (mkt cap) | 2016 |
| Groq | ~$6.4B | 2016 |
| Etched | $5B | 2022 |
| Unconventional AI | $4.5B | 2025 |
| Tenstorrent | ~$3.2B | 2016 |
| d-Matrix | $2B | 2019 |
| Hailo | $1.2B | 2017 |
| Lightmatter | $1.2B | 2017 |