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Anyone else following Q.ANT's photonic GPU advancements? Tech shifting point

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18 May
Q.ANT Photonic Processors "a highly promising technology" according to Josef Weidendorfer after successful deployment in Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ)

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OPINION · WHAT · singularityOPEN STORY
23 Mar
Designed a photonic chip for O(1) KV cache block selection — 944x faster, 18,000x less energy than GPU scan at 1M context

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OPINION · WHAT · LocalLLaMAOPEN STORY
27 Mar
The amount of compute currently running globally for crypto mining is staggering - has anyone thought seriously about redirecting it toward AI?

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I've been reading alot about AI compute stuff lately and something keeps bothering me.</p> <p>The total power used for cryptocoin mining around

OPINION · WHAT · ArtificialInteligenceOPEN STORY
15 May
China modded GPU (eg. 4090 48gb) --> I'm gonna figure it out. IS THERE NO ONE ELSE CURIOUS??

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>There's a dearth of information (in the english world) about these cards.</p> <p>The good recent video is probably this one:<br /> <a

OPINION · WHERE · LocalLLaMAOPEN STORY
22 Sept
Has anyone tried Photon?

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OPINION · WHAT · LocalLLaMAOPEN STORY
6 May
12 million tokens, linear cost: Subquadratic's bet against the attention tax

<p>The quadratic attention problem has quietly shaped everything you've built with LLMs. RAG pipelines, agentic decomposition, hybrid architectures — these aren't the natural

REPORT · HOW · Dev.toOPEN STORY
14 Oct
NVIDIA Nemotron Bolt 3.5 74B A9B releases Oct. 15th

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