AI Chip Trims Energy Budget Back by 99+ Percent

Neural networks that imitate the workings of the human brain now often generate art, power computer vision, and drive many more applications. Now a neural network microchip from China that uses photons instead of electrons, dubbed Taichi, can run AI tasks as well as its electronic counterparts with a thousandth as much energy, according to a new study.

AI typically relies on artificial neural networks in applications such as analyzing medical scans and generating images. In …

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