{"id":1080693,"date":"2024-09-03T10:15:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-03T17:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/?post_type=msr-video&#038;p=1080693"},"modified":"2024-09-03T12:35:17","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T19:35:17","slug":"analog-optical-computing-for-sustainable-ai-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"msr-video","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/video\/analog-optical-computing-for-sustainable-ai-and-beyond\/","title":{"rendered":"Analog optical computing for sustainable AI and beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Francesca Parmigiani and Jiaqi Chu, researchers at Microsoft Research Cambridge, discuss a new kind of computer \u2013 an analog optical computer \u2013 that has the potential to accelerate AI inference and hard optimization workloads by 100x, leveraging hardware-software co-design to improve the efficiency and sustainability of real-world applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Microsoft Research Forum, September 3, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See more at <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/ResearchForum-Sep2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/aka.ms\/ResearchForum-Sep2024<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Francesca Parmigiani and Jiaqi Chu, researchers at Microsoft Research Cambridge, discuss a new kind of computer \u2013 an analog optical computer \u2013 that has the potential to accelerate AI inference and hard optimization workloads by 100x, leveraging hardware-software co-design to improve the efficiency and sustainability of real-world applications. Microsoft Research Forum, September 3, 2024 See [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1081758,"template":"","meta":{"msr-url-field":"","msr-podcast-episode":"","msrModifiedDate":"","msrModifiedDateEnabled":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_classifai_error":"","footnotes":""},"research-area":[13556],"msr-video-type":[268311],"msr-locale":[268875],"msr-post-option":[],"msr-impact-theme":[],"msr-pillar":[],"class_list":["post-1080693","msr-video","type-msr-video","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","msr-research-area-artificial-intelligence","msr-video-type-microsoft-research-forum","msr-locale-en_us"],"msr_download_urls":"","msr_external_url":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/gdJYMoZMKIY","msr_secondary_video_url":"","msr_video_file":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-video\/1080693"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-video"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/msr-video"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-video\/1080693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1082280,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-video\/1080693\/revisions\/1082280"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1081758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1080693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"msr-research-area","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research-area?post=1080693"},{"taxonomy":"msr-video-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-video-type?post=1080693"},{"taxonomy":"msr-locale","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-locale?post=1080693"},{"taxonomy":"msr-post-option","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-post-option?post=1080693"},{"taxonomy":"msr-impact-theme","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-impact-theme?post=1080693"},{"taxonomy":"msr-pillar","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-pillar?post=1080693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}