Chinese scientists have allegedly developed a series of new photonic (light-based) microchips that could outperform NVIDIA’s leading artificial intelligence (AI) graphics processing units (GPUs) by over 100x in terms of speed and efficiency. According to claims, these new chips could easily beat out NVIDIA’s leading tech in some specific generative tasks, such as video production and image synthesis. This sounds impressive, but it is important to understand that they are not a direct replacement for NVIDIA-style GPUs for general-purpose usage.
SkiHotWheels on
Why is this sub full of posts about Chinese this/that tech? Is it Chinese bots or what?
Spooknik on
Cool, but doesn’t run CUDA so useless for like 98% of LLMs.
KyloWrench on
Wow, 2 month old account, hidden post history, and an article about glorious China?
Thefuzy on
“At some tasks” all you needed to know, move on… call me when it’s “at all tasks”.
smith2332 on
Ha yeah China has a such a great track record of making statements that are 100% true, I can walk on water has as much chance of being real as any statement from China
SkiHotWheels on
I’m curious if the mods in this sub are active at all. If they are- can we name this one ‘Chinese Propaganda’ and start a new Futurology from scratch?
gutster_95 on
At some tasks
I am also at some tasks better than Christiano Ronaldo just a FYI
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Chinese scientists have allegedly developed a series of new photonic (light-based) microchips that could outperform NVIDIA’s leading artificial intelligence (AI) graphics processing units (GPUs) by over 100x in terms of speed and efficiency. According to claims, these new chips could easily beat out NVIDIA’s leading tech in some specific generative tasks, such as video production and image synthesis. This sounds impressive, but it is important to understand that they are not a direct replacement for NVIDIA-style GPUs for general-purpose usage.
Why is this sub full of posts about Chinese this/that tech? Is it Chinese bots or what?
Cool, but doesn’t run CUDA so useless for like 98% of LLMs.
Wow, 2 month old account, hidden post history, and an article about glorious China?
“At some tasks” all you needed to know, move on… call me when it’s “at all tasks”.
Ha yeah China has a such a great track record of making statements that are 100% true, I can walk on water has as much chance of being real as any statement from China
I’m curious if the mods in this sub are active at all. If they are- can we name this one ‘Chinese Propaganda’ and start a new Futurology from scratch?
At some tasks
I am also at some tasks better than Christiano Ronaldo just a FYI