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Business, Spoken

To Build a Better AI Supercomputer, Let There Be Light

Apr 5, 2024
Exploring the use of light to enhance AI supercomputers, optical links between chips enabling faster data transfer, revolutionary Passage technology allowing a million GPUs to operate simultaneously, LightMatter's hardware connections redefining AI algorithms, paving the way for achievements like artificial general intelligence.
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  • LightMatter's technology, called passage, proposes optical interconnects for AI supercomputers, enhancing chip-to-chip communication bandwidth by 100 times.
  • Collaboration between LightMatter and semiconductor companies aims to revolutionize chip connections, eliminating bottlenecks and facilitating advancements towards artificial general intelligence (AGI).

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Innovative AI Hardware: Using Light for Faster Data Processing

A startup called LightMatter proposed a groundbreaking technology at an event hosted by Sequoia that could revolutionize AI supercomputers by allowing chips to communicate using light instead of electrical signals. Traditional data movement inside computers utilizes electrical signals, causing communication bottlenecks when converting to fiber optic links. LightMatter's technology, called passage, employs optical interconnects that enable direct chip-to-chip communication with 100 times the usual bandwidth, potentially facilitating distributed AI supercomputers at an unprecedented scale. The CEO of LightMatter envisions a future where over a million GPUs could run in parallel, significantly advancing AI training runs.

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