
Taara - A Google X Moonshot
Taara’s mission is to bring fast, affordable and abundant connectivity to people everywhere, using beams of light. The team partners with telecommunications companies, internet service providers, governments and community organizations worldwide to accelerate the deployment of high-speed, high-capacity connectivity to people globally.
Introducing the Taara Chip - Google X Blog
Feb 28, 2025 · While our first-generation technology, the Taara Lightbridge, steers light physically using a system of mirrors, sensors, and hardware, this new chip uses software to steer, track, and correct the beam of light without bulky moving parts.
Taara
Taara delivers high-speed internet using light beam technology, bypassing cables to provide resilient, fiber-like connectivity. Our wireless solution enables broadband expansion, bridging the digital divide in rural and remote areas.
Alphabet spins off laser-based Internet backbone provider Taara
Mar 17, 2025 · Taara is the latest project to spring from X—Alphabet’s experimental hub that produced AI lab Google Brain and Waymo’s self-driving cars—and has its origins in a concept called Loon.
Alphabet Spins Off Taara, A Laser-Powered Starlink Rival - Forbes
Mar 18, 2025 · With Taara stepping into the spotlight as an independent company, the non-traditional internet connectivity landscape is evolving. While Starlink has led the charge with its satellite-based ...
Taara - About
Taara, born at X (Google’s Moonshot Factory), is revolutionizing broadband expansion with light beam technology. Our wireless connectivity solution bridges telecom infrastructure gaps, delivering fast, reliable internet to underserved communities worldwide.
Introducing the Light Generation - Google X Blog
Mar 17, 2025 · Today, we’re announcing that the Taara team is graduating from The Moonshot Factory to become an independent company. We’ve raised a round of funding led by Series X Capital to deploy and scale Taara’s groundbreaking new approach to wireless optical communications, which uses light to deliver high-speed, high-capacity connectivity over long …
Google's 'moonshot factory' creates new internet with fingernail …
Mar 19, 2025 · The researchers at X, which is Google's research and development arm, hope Taara can deliver fiber-like internet speeds to regions that are difficult to access with traditional fiber-optic cables ...
Google's Taara chip delivers internet at speed of light without cables
Google's new Taara chip promises 20Gbps internet speeds using light beams, potentially revolutionizing connectivity for remote areas.
Google’s Taara Hopes to Usher in a New Era of Internet ... - WIRED
Feb 28, 2025 · Taara’s engineers have used innovative light-augmenting solutions to create a silicon photonic chip that not only will shrink the gadgetry in its light bridges to the size of a fingernail ...