Chinese Scientists Develop Revolutionary Energy-Efficient Optical AI Chip
• Scientists in China have developed Taichi, an optical AI chip that is over 1,000 times more energy efficient than Nvidia's H100 GPU • Taichi uses light instead of electricity for data processing, enabling high speeds and bandwidth with low energy • Taichi shows strong performance on AI tasks like image recognition and text generation • The chip has a distributed architecture of multiple photonic circuit clusters for efficient parallel computing • Researchers believe Taichi represents major progress toward practical optical computing for advanced AI