Y Combinator Analysis: Next-Generation Computing Beyond GPUs—Optical, Biological Brains, and Neuromorphic

October 2, 2026OverviewIn this video from the official channel of Y Combinator, the world's premier startup accelerator, 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 ...
American Physical Society

Metamaterials for Analog Optical Computing

Novel metamaterial-based architectures offer a promising platform for building mass-producible, reprogrammable schemes that perform computing tasks with light. Metamaterials are synthetic materials ...
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 ...
Military

Initiative in optical computing may lead to advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and thermal management

DARPA is seeking industry input for the Very Large-scale Photonic Integration (VLPI) project, aimed at revolutionizing computing through large-format photonic integrated circuits. Using light instead ...
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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 billion-parameter large language model (LLM) in real time. Dubbed Iris Nova, this server can help companies ...
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 ...
Hackaday

Analog Optical Computer For Inference And Combinatorial Optimization

Although computers are overwhelmingly digital today, there’s a good point to be made that analog computers are the more efficient approach for specific applications. The authors behind a recent paper ...
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 ...