Sam Altman just reached the same conclusion Nick Harris did a decade earlier during his @MIT post-doc: light, not electronics, is computing's next leap. Nick founded Lightmatter in 2017 to build it. By April 2025, Nature published proof: the first photonic AI processor running ResNet, BERT, and Atari like DeepMind. Full story: l.businessinsider.com/s/vb/I… Nick's take: lightmatter.co/blog/a-new-ki… @sama @OpenAI @theanalognick
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A 1971-like photonic moment is coming.

Sep 4, 2026 · 6:45 PM UTC

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No, it is not. The whole "field" is full of grifters misrepresenting their numbers because they have nothing even remotely competitive with CMOS.
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