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Last Week in AI #154: Light-based AI chips, DeepMind AI for competitive coding, EU and US AI regulations, and more!

Celestial AI lands funding to develop photonic AI accelerator chips, DeepMind's new research on AI that solves competitive programming questions, EU and US aligning on AI regulations.

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Feb 07, 2022
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Celestial AI lands $56M to develop light-based AI accelerator chips

Photonic chips may help speed up common workloads by AI algorithms. These chips use light, instead of electricity, to perform computation and send signals. In theory, they produce less heat and can operate faster. In practice, however, existing prototypes are too big and hard to …

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