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LightOn Photonic coprocessor integrated into European AI Supercomputer

Four years ago to the day, LightOn’s first Optical Processing Unit (OPU) had its first light in a Data Center showing that our technology was data center ready.

LightOn: The $1,000 GPT-3

Progress usually comes from a steady technology bootstrap…until it doesn’t.

Summary of LightOn AI meetup #14

WeightWatcher a Diagnostic Tool for Deep Neural Networks

LightOn releases PAGnol, the largest French Language Model

Paris-based startup LightOn, maker of photonic co-processors for large-scale AI, unveils today PAGnol, a 1.5 billion parameter language model.

Summary of LightOn AI meetup #13

Efficient Neural Networks Training through Locality Sensitive Hashing

LightOn at #NeurIPS2020

Deep Reservoir Computing and Beyond: Fast and Lightweight Neural Networks

The 8th LightOn AI Meetup rocked! This time, we had Claudio Gallicchio, Assistant Professor at University of Pisa, talking about Deep Reservoir Computing and Beyond.

LightOn’s AI Research Workshop — FoRM #4: The Future of Random Matrices. Thursday, December 19th.

On Thursday, December 19th, we held our 4th research workshop on the Future of Random Projections (FoRM#4).

LightOn at #NeurIPS2019

Laurent Daudet, (LightOn CTO and Co-founder), Iacopo Poli (Lead ML at LightOn) and Florent Krzakala (consultant at LightOn and Co-founder), are currently at #NeurIPS2019 in Vancouver. One poster will feature some work performed with LightOn’s processing Unit and will be presented by Laurent or Iacopo.