2026-05-05 13:57 UTC
Optical computing technology continues to advance. Whatever your opinion on LLMs, IMHO you have to understand the technology(s) before criticizing it. I compare this to the time when DSPs and math coprocessors were separate chips.
https://lumai.ai/resources/lumai-launches-the-worlds-first-optical-computing-system-for-real-time-billion-parameter-llm-inference
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@cshishido@infosec.exchange 2026-05-05 13:58
Hat Tip to The Register, “Lumai detailed its optical inference accelerator, which uses light, rather than electrons, to perform the matrix multiplication operations at the heart of most machine learning workloads using a fraction of the power of a purely digital architecture.” https://www.theregister.com/2026/05/03/inference_is_giving_ai_chip/