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The deal is a $150M investment from 3M in Genius Electronic Optical, a company making optical components for AI data centers. Optical interconnects increasingly constrain how large GPU clusters scale, so capital flowing into this layer signals where infrastructure bottlenecks are seen to be. The article gives no technical specifics or performance claims, so readers should treat it as a funding signal rather than evidence of a technical breakthrough.
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3M puts $150M into Genius Electronic Optical for AI data centre optics
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