<ul><li>Researchers from Hewlett Packard Labs, Indian Institutes of Technology Madras, Microsoft Research, and University of Michigan built an AI acceleration platform based on heterogeneously integrated photonic ICs.</li><li>Researchers from University of Pennsylvania and College of Staten Island developed a programmable photonic chip that can train nonlinear neural networks using light.</li><li>Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light (MPL), Leibniz University Hannover, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) demonstrated an all-optically controlled activation function based on traveling sound waves that is suitable for a range of optical neural network approaches and allows for operation in the synthetic frequency dimension.</li><li>The platforms and chips developed by these research teams have the potential to advance the field of artificial intelligence and contribute to the development of energy-efficient and high-performance neural networks.</li></ul>

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