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Next Unicorns: Unlocking the power of photonic computing with Lightmatter CEO Nick Harris | E1787

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LightMatter's Product Line Passage

The distance that people are using optics over is getting smaller and smaller. So we've actually developed two kinds of technology at LightMatter. One is actually doing the computation behind deep learning, using tiny little optical components to measure microns by microns. And it does the additions and the multiplications that describe neural network mathematics,. Think about large language models. It does that math using light. That's a huge breakthrough new field, something that we've pioneered here.

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