David Lazovsky
Biography
Dave Lazovsky is the Co-founder and CEO of Celestial AI, the creators of the Photonic FabricTM. Celestial AI, founded in April 2020, has developed the optical interconnectivity technology platform for AI computing.
Prior to founding Celestial AI, Mr. Lazovsky was a Venture Partner at Khosla Ventures. He has 30 years of experience in the semiconductor industry and over two decades of experience building andleading successful start-ups.
In 2004 Mr. Lazovsky founded Intermolecular, a semiconductor and clean energy R&D and Intellectual Property licensing company. He served as the company’s Chief Executive Officer,President and as a member of the board of directors from September 2004 through October 2014. As President and CEO, Mr. Lazovsky led all aspects of the business through its lifecycle from early-stage start-up to public company. Intermolecular (IMI) went public on the NASDAQ in 2011.
He currently has over 80 issued and pending U.S. patents.
Company Profile
Celestial AI
AI is touching our lives and driving breakthroughs in healthcare, finance, autonomous systems, and countless other domains. Its ability to process vast data, derive insights, and automate complex tasks unlocks new levels of efficiency and innovation. However, the exponential growth of AI workloads demands greater computational power and more efficient data movement. Traditional electronic interconnects are struggling to keep up, necessitating a paradigm shift in AI infrastructure.
The answer is like night and day.
Celestial AI’s Photonic Fabric is a revolutionary technology that scales AI compute within package and package-to-package across multiple racks. It forms the foundation for an optical scale-up network, overcoming the physical limitations of electronic interconnects. Offering terabytes of low-latency bandwidth, in-network computing, and high-performance memory, Photonic Fabric heralds a new dawn in AI infrastructure.
Switching to optical interconnects enables larger multi-die packages and bigger scale-up domains, creating a leap into the next decade. Photonic Fabric-based products transform AI data centers, scaling thousands of XPUs across racks, enabling larger models, better reasoning, and more efficient inference. By reducing total cost of ownership, this innovation unlocks new use cases and more profitable GenAI business models.
With an aggressive roadmap, a robust ecosystem of partners, and a tier-one supply chain, Celestial AI isn’t just reimagining AI data centers, it’s delivering an AI-driven, sustainable future. At its core, AI isn’t just about algorithms or hardware, it’s about people. Unlocking creativity, solving humanity’s biggest challenges, and making the impossible possible. The future of AI is here. Intelligence, illuminated.