Company: LIDRW
Filing Date: 2025-05-12
Form Type: POS AM
Source: 0000947871-25-000486
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Company: AEye, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-05-12
Form: POS AM
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 offering. ☐

If this Form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(c)
under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration
statement for the same offering. ☐

If this Form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(d)
under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration
statement for the same offering. ☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer,
an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large
accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company” and “emerging growth company”
in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

| Large accelerated filer | ☐ |     | Accelerated filer         | ☐ |
| Non-accelerated filer   | ☒ |     | Smaller reporting company | ☒ |
|                         |   |     | Emerging growth company   | ☒ |

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant
has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant
to Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act. ☐

The Registrant hereby amends this Registration Statement on such date or dates as may be necessary to delay its effective date until the Registrant shall file a further amendment which specifically states that this Registration Statement shall thereafter become effective in accordance with Section 8(a) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or until the Registration Statement shall become effective on such date as the Securities and Exchange Commission, acting pursuant to said Section 8(a), may determine.

<div align='center'>EXPLANATORY NOTE</div>

On August 5, 2024, the registrant filed a Registration
Statement on Form S-1 (Registration No. 333-281235), as amended by Pre-Effective Amendment No. 1 filed on August 14, 2024, and
subsequently declared effective by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on August 15, 2024 (as amended
from time to time, the “Registration Statement”). The Registration Statement initially registered the resale of up
to 25