Optical AI chip created at the University of Florida

Recently, information appeared that an AI chip was presented at the University of Florida. This project was developed by scientists, and it performs basic convolution operations with microlenses and lasers. Such operations are the basis of computer vision for video processing and speech recognition.

Features of the AI chip development

One feature of the AI chip development is its focus on minimal energy consumption. Based on research, the new chip can use 10-100 times less energy compared to traditional approaches, while maintaining an accuracy level of 98%.

The team of researchers working on the project was able to embed optical computing into the chip itself. This opens up great prospects for scaling technologies in large AI systems and data centers. On an industrial scale, many AI projects are very energy-intensive, and the new project opens up great opportunities to minimize these limitations.

Many analysts believe that reducing energy consumption is an excellent standard that can accelerate the growth of AI projects.