Analog optical computing for sustainable AI and beyond

Francesca Parmigiani and Jiaqi Chu, researchers at Microsoft Research Cambridge, discuss a new kind of computer - an analog optical computer - that has the potential to accelerate AI inference and hard optimization workloads by 100x, leveraging hardware-software co-design to improve the efficiency and sustainability of real-world applications.
Microsoft Research Forum, September 3, 2024
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