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⚛️ Replacing Hot Silicon with Frictionless Light: How Laser Pulses, Quantum Noise, and the Physics of Light Are Rewriting the Rules of Computing
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We've been waging this war for seventy years, and we have been winning — until very recently. Until the scale of what we're asking computers to do began to exceed what physics can give us.
The AI revolution has a fever. And it's getting worse.
That warmth, that small fever of resistance, is not the future. Somewhere in a lab, in a ring of fibre optic cable thinner than a human hair, a pulse of light is circling at the speed of light, settling into the answer to a question we barely know how to ask.
It's not a war anymore. It's a conversation.
A versatile coherent Ising computing platform
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