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This chip uses light to supercharge AI and cut energy use


Convolutional neural networks, or CNNs, are the workhorses behind many of AI's greatest hits, like spotting faces in photos, reading handwriting, or translating languages. They're masters at pattern recognition, scanning raw data with tiny filters (called kernels) to pick out meaningful features,…

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