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jplee··on Photonic Computing for Transformative AI
If someone from the company is checking in on this thread, it’d be interesting to know what’s being done physically. Is this a chip-based approach like lightmatter and others or something different?

Maybe I’m not looking hard enough, but I couldn’t find it on the site.

jplee··on Can you use a magnifying glass and moonlight to light a fire? (2016)
If this is true, how do laser cutters work? The focused beam can melt through steel, but surely the temperature of the gain medium is much lower than the melting point of steel?

But the thermodynamics argument seems like it makes sense too...