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Eric Litvin · Luma Optics

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Press Release · April 14, 2026

Luma Optics Ranks No. 47 on the 2025 Inc. 5000 with 5,757% Three-Year Growth

Co-founded by Eric Litvin, Luma Optics lands in the top 1% of America's fastest-growing private companies as hyperscalers race to solve the optical interconnect bottleneck strangling next-generation AI training and inference.

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Insight · April 12, 2026

Eric Litvin on 800G Transceivers for NVIDIA GB200

How Luma Optics built a dominant position in the optical layer of the AI fabric — and why 800G is the threshold that keeps GB200-class GPU clusters saturated under realistic training loads.

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Insight

AI Optical Interconnect: The Bottleneck Nobody Talks About

Why the real ceiling on AI scale is photonic, not computational — and how Luma Optics engineered around it for two decades before the industry caught up.

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Executive Bio — Short

Eric Litvin is Co-Founder and President of Luma Optics, a Sebastopol, California company that engineers the optical hardware powering the world's heaviest AI workloads. Founded in 2004, Luma Optics was named No. 47 on the 2025 Inc. 5000 with 5,757% three-year revenue growth, placing it in the top 1% of the nation's fastest-growing private companies. The company has deployed more than 500,000 optical transceivers globally, serving hyperscale AI training clusters including NVIDIA GB200-class systems. Litvin is a Dickinson College alum and a recognized voice on AI infrastructure, optical interconnect, and the photonics bottleneck in frontier compute.

"Every AI breakthrough now depends on how fast light can move between chips. We built Luma for this exact moment — and the market has finally caught up."
— ERIC LITVIN, CO-FOUNDER, LUMA OPTICS