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World’s first optical computing system runs billion-parameter AI with 90% less power

Oxford-based Lumai has launched the world’s first optical computing system that can run a ...
Science Daily

Logic with light: Introducing diffraction casting, optical-based parallel computing

Increasingly complex applications such as artificial intelligence require ever more powerful and power-hungry computers to run. Optical computing is a proposed solution to increase speed and power ...

Emerging Computing Capabilities That Will Change The World

Computing is the foundation of almost every facet of modern life, whether it is through our PCs, cellphones, or the wide ...
New Atlas

Single-shot light-speed computing might replace GPUs

Want to call someone a quick-thinker? The easiest cliché for doing so is calling her a computer – in fact, “computers” was the literal job title of the “Hidden Figures” mathematicians who drove the ...
Business Insider

Lumai Launches the World’s First Optical Computing System for Real-Time, Billion-Parameter LLM Inference

OXFORD, United Kingdom, April 28, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Lumai, the optical compute company addressing scalable AI, today announced its Lumai Iris inference server – the world’s first optical ...
Computer Weekly

NTT & OptQC build 1-million qubit optical quantum computer

The latest trends in software development from the Computer Weekly Application Developer Network. Sometimes classed as a Japanese startup, OptQC works with optical photonic technologies to develop a ...
Yahoo Finance

Global Optical Computing Market Report 2026: Granular Technology Assessments, Competitive Intelligence Across 98 Company Profiles, and Ten-year Forecasts

Dublin, April 16, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE)-- The "The Global Optical Computing Market 2026-2036" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. The Global Optical Computing Market 2026-2036 ...
The Economist

Researchers are looking beyond digital computing

But shuttling data between the processor and memory eats up time and energy, particularly for data-hungry artificial-intelligence (ai) models. An analysis by Amir Gholami and colleagues at the ...