• Constructor Capital portfolio company Lumai will deploy Iris optical inference servers at the UK's Scaling Inference Lab.
• The lab has £50 million in backing from the Advanced Research and Invention Agency and is operated by CommonAI.
• As the lab's first optical inference platform, Lumai will undergo independent testing on production-scale AI workloads in a commercial data center.
• The evaluation will assess targets of up to 90% lower power consumption and approximately one-tenth the ownership cost of conventional GPU architectures.
• The deployment builds on Lumai's April 2026 introduction of Iris Nova, its first optical inference server available for evaluation.

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