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    Photonic GPUs and the prospect of AI computing with light

    A user says a few people working in a garage without funding are already building basic infrastructure for photonic GPUs.

    Brian RoemmeleBR
    3 Sources, 21d ago, first seen 21d ago

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    A user predicts that the next major leap in AI chips will rely on light rather than electrons. They claim photonic GPUs could deliver orders-of-magnitude speed gains with what they describe as “nearly battery level” power needs. The author also says a few people are already building basic infrastructure in a garage without funding.

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    Brian Roemmele@BrianRoemmeleAI WILL USE LIGHT INSTEAD OF ELECTRONS! The next major leap in AI chips will only function with light. Photonic GPUs I have been shown a few folks literally in a garage with no funding already building the basic infrastructure for it to work. We are talking about massive orders of magnitude in speed and nearly battery level of power needed with current modalities but the prospects of new AI modalities built for Photonic GPUs. We lived in Moore’s Law since 1970 and that just about ended. Sure we will optimize with different lithographic techniques and my favorite analog math over the wasteful digital math used by AI systems. However it is just a bandage to the end of the road. Below we see a logarithmic graph tracking the transistor count of microchips from 1970 to 2020. Transistor densities doubled roughly every two years during this period, fulfilling Gordon Moore's prediction before hitting physical limits. I have seen the “light” and very soon you will too. File this as a note from the future, because it is.21d

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    Brian Roemmele@BrianRoemmeleAI WILL USE LIGHT INSTEAD OF ELECTRONS! The next major leap in AI chips will only function with light. Photonic GPUs I have been shown a few folks literally in a garage with no funding already building the basic infrastructure for it to work. We are talking about massive orders of magnitude in speed and nearly battery level of power needed with current modalities but the prospects of new AI modalities built for Photonic GPUs. We lived in Moore’s Law since 1970 and that just about ended. Sure we will optimize with different lithographic techniques and my favorite analog math over the wasteful digital math used by AI systems. However it is just a bandage to the end of the road. Below we see a logarithmic graph tracking the transistor count of microchips from 1970 to 2020. Transistor densities doubled roughly every two years during this period, fulfilling Gordon Moore's prediction before hitting physical limits. I have seen the “light” and very soon you will too. File this as a note from the future, because it is.21d