--- title: Oriole deploys first pure photonic AI network, claims... description: UK startup Oriole Networks is deploying what it claims is the world's first large-scale pure photonic AI network, replacing electrical switches with nanosecond... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/oriole-deploys-first-pure-photonic-ai-network-claims-81-cut-qwmoioou2 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Oriole deploys first pure photonic AI network, claims 81% cut | daily.dev og:description: UK startup Oriole Networks is deploying what it claims is the world's first large-scale pure photonic AI network, replacing electrical switches with nanosecond... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/oriole-deploys-first-pure-photonic-ai-network-claims-81-cut-qwmoioou2 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/qWmOiooU2.png og:image:alt: Oriole deploys first pure photonic AI network, claims 81% cut og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Oriole deploys first pure photonic AI network, claims 81% cut **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary UK startup Oriole Networks is deploying what it claims is the world's first large-scale pure photonic AI network, replacing electrical switches with nanosecond optical circuit switching. The PRISM platform is being deployed inside the UK government's £50m ARIA Scaling Inference Lab alongside AMD Instinct GPUs and EPYC CPUs. Oriole claims 81% core network power reduction and GPU idle time dropping from ~60% to under 1%, translating to an order-of-magnitude increase in inference throughput. The claims are unverified at production scale — the ARIA deployment is the first real-world test. Oriole raised ~$35M and went from R&D to commercial deployment in three years. A wider industry rollout is planned for 2027, with the key question being whether PRISM can scale beyond a government-funded testbed to hyperscale commercial data centers. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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