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Monday, January 6, 2025 at 2:35PM Gazettabyte is asking industry figures to pick their reads of the year. In the penultimate entry, Prof. Yosef Ben Ezra, Dave Welch, William Webb, and Abdul Rahim share their favourite reads.
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Professor Yosef Ben Ezra, PhD, CTO, NewPhotonics
My reading in 2024 continued to augment my technical knowledge with insights on how to bring innovation to the market.
Tuesday, December 31, 2024 at 5:18PM The spectacular rise in the capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI) is directly attributable to the scaling of the computing hardware used to train AI models.
Nigel Toon
“People discovered early on that if you increase the size of those models and the amount of data to train those models, you get a big step-up in accuracy and performance,” says Nigel Toon, CEO and chairman of AI processor firm Graphcore. “The results have been stunning.”
Toon cites research that shows that for large language models the size of the model and the data must be scaled equally.
However, AI developers have started to see a slowdown in the gains achieved solely by such scaling. This is leading to new thinking in how engineers build an AI model and how it generates its output when prompted. The result is a new wave of AI, says Toon.
Monday, October 23, 2023 at 3:05PM Gazettabyte is asking industry figures for their thoughts after attending the recent ECOC show in Glasgow. In particular, what developments and trends they noted, what they learned and what, if anything, surprised them. Here are more responses from LightCounting, Hyper Photonix, NewPhotonics, and Broadcom.
Vladimir Kozlov, CEO of LightCounting, a market research company
Demand for optical connectivity in data centres has accelerated innovation in the industry. ECOC 2023 offered numerous start-ups and established vendors another opportunity to disclose their latest achievements.
The improved reliability of quantum dot lasers was a pleasant surprise. Alfalume presented the latest quantum dot comb laser developments, including continuous power up to 250 mW with a power conversion efficiency of a quarter (25%) and efficient operation of up to 100oC. Preliminary test data suggests that quantum dot lasers offer superior reliability compared to their quantum well counterparts. It would be great to have a reliable laser source, finally.
