## [Bill Gates just backed a chip startup that uses light to turbocharge AI](https://knowen-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/attachment/file/3486/Luminous%2BAI.pdf)
> Luminous Computing has developed an optical microchip that runs AI models
> much faster than other semiconductors while using less power.


[Attojoule Optoelectronics for Low-Energy Information Processing and Communications](https://knowen-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/attachment/file/5061/Attojoule_Optoelectronics_for_Low-Energy_Information_Processing_and_Communications.pdf)
David A. B. Miller,

## 2019 [Chip design drastically reduces energy needed to compute with light](https://news.mit.edu/2019/ai-chip-light-computing-faster-0605)
> Simulations suggest photonic chip could run optical neural networks 10 million times more efficiently than its electrical counterparts