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Optical inference could (potentially) be a real solution for the power,cooling and density issue that AI data centers face. But first it has got pass a critical test.

“GPUs are silicon chips that use transistors to perform the matrix multiplications at the heart of AI inference,” Phillip Burr at Lumai explained to me. “Optical compute uses the properties of light to perform the same matrix multiplications, completing millions of operations in a single optical cycle.”

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www.datacenterknowledge.com Can Optical AI Cut Data Center Inference Power Use? Lumai is testing optical AI inference servers in a UK lab, aiming to cut data center power use by moving prefill workloads off GPUs.