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
A 1971-like photonic moment is coming.
Sep 4, 2026 · 6:45 PM UTC