The Convergence of Photonics and AI: How Optical Components Are Powering the Next Computing Revolution
The artificial intelligence (AI) revolution, epitomized by large language models and massive neural networks, has unleashed an insatiable demand for computational power. Training models like GPT-4 requires weeks of processing on clusters of thousands of GPUs, consuming megawatts of power. As we push toward artificial general intelligence (AGI) and beyond, the limitations of electronic interconnects—bandwidth,…
