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Can optical computing be the next breakthrough in AI acceleration?

As neural networks and machine learning continue to take on new challenges from analyzing images posted on social media to driving cars, there’s increasing interest in creating hardware that are tailored for AI computation. The limits of current computer hardware has triggered a quasi-arms race, enlisting a growing array of small and large tech companies that want to create specialized hardware for artificial intelligence computation. But one startup aims to create the next breakthrough in AI acceleration by changing the most fundamental technology that has been powering computers in the past several decades. A team of scientists at Boston-based Lightelligence are ditching electronics for photonic computing to achieve...