What's next for photonics-powered data centers and AI ft. Lightmatter's Nick Harris

Nick Harris, founder of Lightmatter, speaks at Sequoia Capital's AI Ascent about what's next for data centers and how we will power the next generation of AI models. The compute required to scale AI models comes at a high cost. To achieve new levels of scale, the next generation of super computers will replace electrons with photonics. Their product, Passage, is an optical interconnect for GPUs that reduces energy consumption and enables scaling to a million nodes and beyond.
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[@xXxBladeStormxXx]

Super excited for photonics. Not just for connecting data centers but also being used in the chips itself.

[@PeterBordes]

Lightmatter is one of, if not the most important company that enables the second wave of global AI scale. Photonics is the future of AI and the Orwellian world that 100X the industrial age.listen to who they are working with already at the end of the talk.

[@user-ct4nm3pe7o]

Nope not even close...you will see who the most important company is and it's not a funded to fail 7 year old startup run by a bunch of virgins.

[@Kevin_Knights]

At 4:53 I would have used a green color for the connections, this way you get to see it as an improvement (green is good - red is bad) and it would look less diabolical lol.

[@Viperzka]

Absolutely. I imagine that this will be clipped and will be pushed on qanon forums to show that AI is actually the devil.

[@tshirtnjeans4829]

Nvidia's head of IR Simona Jankowski just joined this company as CFO.
Wonder what this could imply...

[@bobtarmac1828]

What about photonic memory? Does that scale?

[@VJ-lt9uk]

The CEO of Intel says we’re nowhere close to the end of Moore’s law, but here is this guy saying it’s about to end. Who is right?

[@Charles-Darwin]

Well, intel has every incentive to push mini-iterations for as long as possible

[@seventyfive7597]

Intel use right, without a doubt, read the actual papers

[@mengni4426]

2nm is probably what most cutting edge node that TSMC is working on with FinFET structure. For 1nm, probably gate-all-around structure would be the pass. But anything beyond might against physical law since an atom is about 3-4A (0.3-0.4nm). You cannot put a transistor gate there smaller than an atom, and electron leakage will ruin the reliability of the transistor.

[@chrizzbee]

People have been declaring Moores law as dead since the 1990's so idk 🤷

[@seventyfive7597]

So he basically said nothing

[@louiepecan]

Damn first here too! 📠💯

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