It turns out that the bottleneck is communication-between chips, between memories, between boards, between boxes and between racks. The luminous founders set out to solve the challenge of providing orders of magnitude improvements in computing performance without giving up on ease of use, programmability and customer experience in order to make good on their mission to make AI fulfill its potential to automate many aspects of human activity to improve life. That's what we're building here,” says Gomez. And what's required to get species defining technology improvements, to do things like talk to your computer, deploy robotics at scale or completely automate medicine, is a supercomputer that can actually support the next generation of AI. The problem is that we've maxed out the capability of existing hardware. The biggest models today take months on tens of thousands of machines requiring hundreds of engineers. “Ten years ago, the largest AI models took maybe an hour to train on a single machine. The Mountain View, California-based start-up, founded in 2018 by Marcus Gomez, CEO, Mitchell Nahmias, CTO and Michael Gao (who has since left the company), plans to push revolutionary technological advances to maximize artificial intelligence through the development of a new supercomputer built on photonics chips. Luminous Computing is trying to change that dynamic. Luminous Computing Founders (l) Marcus Gomez and (r) Michael Nahmias. The total computing power required to train the world’s biggest AI model has been doubling every three and a half months for the past several years, far outpacing Moore's law. These algorithms get better by getting bigger. AI research efforts from Alphabet’s DeepMindAI, Meta, OpenAI and others are pushing the current known capabilities of today’s computing environments. Got it! Got it! Artificial intelligence is not only big business, estimated to reach over $422 billion in global spending by 2028, it requires big data computing on a scale few can comprehend. New!Follow this author to stay notified about their latest stories. I write about innovative, growth-minded CXOs and entrepreneurs. Luminous Computing Aims To Accelerate AI With Photonic Computing
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