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As some of you may know, LightOn has built a few Large Language Models, and we are now making them usable to Enterprise customers. In the meantime and on the theoretical side of things, the Simo...

http://nuit-blanche.blogspot.com/2023/08/large-language-models-and-transformers.html

Back in 2011, Marc Andreesen announced that Software was eating the world while everyone was trying to make sense of the realities of the cloud versus brick and mortar businesses. Eight years la...

http://nuit-blanche.blogspot.com/2021/12/2021-year-ai-ate-hpc-and-more.html

** Nuit Blanche is now on Twitter: @NuitBlog  ** This is history of computing in the making stuff! Four years ago to the day, LightOn ’s first Optical Processing Unit (OPU) had its fi...

http://nuit-blanche.blogspot.com/2021/12/lighton-photonic-coprocessor-integrated.html

** Nuit Blanche is now on Twitter: @NuitBlog  ** As larger models seem to be providing more context and more ability for zero-shot learning, Julien  just created the Akronomicon: an Ex...

http://nuit-blanche.blogspot.com/2021/05/the-akronomicon-extreme-scale.html

** Nuit Blanche is now on Twitter: @NuitBlog  ** Just got an email from Rina Panigrahy > Hi Igor,  >  > I am an algorithms researcher at Google > (http://theory.stanford.edu...

http://nuit-blanche.blogspot.com/2021/04/virtual-workshop-conceptual.html

** Nuit Blanche is now on Twitter: @NuitBlog  ** At LightOn , we build photonic hardware that performs random projections and it is nice to find a source of materials on the subject in one do...

http://nuit-blanche.blogspot.com/2021/04/randomized-algorithms-for-scientific.html

** Nuit Blanche is now on Twitter: @NuitBlog  ** Progress usually comes from a steady technology bootstrap…until it doesn’t. Take for instance the race for the $1,000 genome that starte...

http://nuit-blanche.blogspot.com/2021/04/the-1000gpt-3.html

I gave a talk at #mathia2021 conference on March 9th, 2021 where I drew a parallel between the scaling laws that enabled industrialization in the 1920's and the new scaling laws in AI of the 20...

http://nuit-blanche.blogspot.com/2021/03/computing-with-light-how-lighton.html

Today is a big day at LightOn as we unveil a hardware product, the Appliance, the world's first commercially available photonic co-processor for AI and HPC If interested pre-ordering informati...

http://nuit-blanche.blogspot.com/2021/03/unveiling-lighton-appliance.html

In the coming days, we'll be making another announcement but I wanted to first share a video we did recently. At LightOn , we don't build photonic computing hardware because it's fancy or cool (e...

http://nuit-blanche.blogspot.com/2021/03/video-lighton-unlocks-transformative-ai.html

** Nuit Blanche is now on Twitter: @NuitBlog  **  Here is a new curated page on the topic of Implicit Neural Representations aptly called Awesome Implicit Neural Representations . It is cu...

http://nuit-blanche.blogspot.com/2020/12/the-awesome-implicit-neural.html

** Nuit Blanche is now on Twitter: @NuitBlog  **  We presented this work at the Beyond Backpropagation workshop at NeurIPS . A great conjunction between computational hardware and algorithm!...

http://nuit-blanche.blogspot.com/2020/12/hardware-beyond-backpropagation.html

** Nuit Blanche is now on Twitter: @NuitBlog  **  Aurélien  sent me an email back in October and we are now in December! Time flies. > Dear Igor,  >  > I hope things are well....

http://nuit-blanche.blogspot.com/2020/12/diffraction-unlimited-imaging-based-on.html

** Nuit Blanche is now on Twitter: @NuitBlog  **  I posted the following on LightOn 's Blog . We live in interesting times! A combination of post-Moore’s law era and the advent of ...

http://nuit-blanche.blogspot.com/2020/12/lighton-at-neurips2020.html

** Nuit Blanche is now on Twitter: @NuitBlog  **  Ever since we started LightOn, we have been putting some emphasis on having great minds think how new algorithms are possible and how they ...

http://nuit-blanche.blogspot.com/2020/10/weight-agnostic-neural-networks-virtual.html

** Nuit Blanche is now on Twitter: @NuitBlog  **  It's the little things.  In the 2000s, after featuring good work on Nuit Blanche , I was usually following through by asking authors ...

http://nuit-blanche.blogspot.com/2020/10/as-world-turns-implementations-now-on.html

It’s been a long time brewing but we just released our first white paper on Photonic Computing for Massively Parallel AI . The document features the technology we develop at LightOn , some ...

http://nuit-blanche.blogspot.com/2020/05/photonic-computing-for-massively.html

** Nuit Blanche is now on Twitter: @NuitBlog  ** Martin Graive did an internship at LightOn and decided to investigate how to use Random Projections in the context of Reinforcement Le...

http://nuit-blanche.blogspot.com/2020/05/tackling-reinforcement-learning-with.html

** Nuit Blanche is now on Twitter: @NuitBlog  ** Come and join us at LightOn , we have a 3-year PhD fellowship available for someone who can help us build our future photonic cores. Here i...

http://nuit-blanche.blogspot.com/2020/04/3-year-phd-studentship-in-inverse.html

** Nuit Blanche is now on Twitter: @NuitBlog  ** At LightOn , we just launched LightOn Cloud 2.0 that feature several Aurora Optical Processing Unit for use by the Machine Learning Comm...

http://nuit-blanche.blogspot.com/2020/04/lighton-cloud-20-featuring-lighton.html

** Nuit Blanche is now on Twitter: @NuitBlog  ** We just published a new blog post at LightOn . This time, we used LightOn 's Optical Processing Unit to show how our hardware can help ...

http://nuit-blanche.blogspot.com/2020/03/accelerating-sars-cov2-molecular.html

** Nuit Blanche is now on Twitter: @NuitBlog  ** We recently used LightOn 's Optical Processing Unit to show how our hardware fared in the context of Transfer learning. Our engineer, Lu...

http://nuit-blanche.blogspot.com/2020/03/au-revoir-backprop-bonjour-optical.html

** Nuit Blanche is now on Twitter: @NuitBlog  ** We recently tried a small experiment with LightOn 's Optical Processing Unit on the issue of generalization. Our engineer, Alessandro Cappe...

http://nuit-blanche.blogspot.com/2020/01/beyond-overfitting-and-beyond-silicon.html

** Nuit Blanche is now on Twitter: @NuitBlog  ** Tomorrow we will feature LightOn’s 4th AI Research workshop on the Future of Random Matrices (FoRM). It starts at 2pm on Thursday, Dec...

http://nuit-blanche.blogspot.com/2019/12/lightons-ai-research-workshop-form-4.html

** Nuit Blanche is now on Twitter: @NuitBlog  ** A big thank you to Scaleway for hosting us in their inspiring office and sponsoring the networking event afterwards. So this is quit...

http://nuit-blanche.blogspot.com/2019/12/ce-soir-paris-machine-learning-meetup-2.html