Photonics: Breaking Through the Copper Ceiling

Paradoxical Truth: The prevailing assumption is that AI scaling requires more computation. We believe the opposite may increasingly be true. As AI expands across distributed networks of datacenters, communication becomes the primary constraint on performance. Advances in computation are paradoxically making communication the scarcer resource, forcing a transition from electrical to optical infrastructure.


AI is Becoming a Distributed System


Distributed Intelligence Requires Distributed Communication


The Copper Ceiling


Emergence of Photonics


Computation to Communication



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