Chinese team builds optical chip AI that is 100 times faster than Nvidia’s A100
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Researchers harnessed the power of light to create a chip that could perform complex generative tasks with vastly improved energy efficiency.

Optic computing is as old as the hills. Looking at the abstract, it appears to be the usual domain-specific architecture, which only does very well in a tailored case.

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it’s a pretty big case right now

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