Florida Engineers Test Photonic AI Chips in Space (UF News)

The University of Florida, in collaboration with NASA, MIT, Vanguard Automation, AIM Photonics and Germany’s Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute, launched a suite of photonic AI chips to the International Space Station aboard JAXA’s HTV-XI spacecraft this weekend.
New Light-Based Chip Boosts Power Efficiency of AI Tasks 100 Fold (UF News)

UF researchers have developed a new kind of computer chip that uses light instead of electricity to perform one of the most power-intensive parts of artificial intelligence — image recognition and similar pattern-finding tasks.