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Microsoft’s analog optical computer passed two practical tests: banking optimization and MRI reconstruction. Still early, but it points to faster, lower-energy AI for specific workloads.

#AnalogAI #AIHardware

https://news.microsoft.com/source/features/innovation/microsoft-analog-optical-computer-cracks-two-practical-problems-shows-ai-promise/

Tristan Zand Sep 20, 2025

analog ai #analogAI

Daniel Khent Feb 2, 2025

How analog in-memory computing could power the AI models of tomorrow

Analog in-memory computing, which enmeshes memory and compute, can eliminate bottlenecks

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https://research.ibm.com/blog/how-can-analog-in-memory-computing-power-transformer-models

Analog in-memory computing could power tomorrow’s AI models

Three new papers from IBM Research highlight the future role of analog in-memory computing in AI, both in the cloud and on the edge.

IBM Research

Jon Udell Aug 2, 2023

"On this episode of The Last Archive, the story of the composer Raymond Scott’s lifelong quest to build an automatic songwriting machine, and what it means for our own AI-addled, ChatGPT world."

This was one of the weirdest and most interesting stories I've heard lately.

#ElectronicMusic #AnalogAI

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/player-piano/

Player Piano - 99% Invisible

The Last Archive is a history show. Our evidence is the evidence of history, the evidence of archives. Manuscripts, photographs, letters and diaries, government documents. Facebook posts, Youtube videos, DVDs. Oral histories. This stuff is known as the “historical record,” but of course it’s not a record, in the sense of an audio recording: It’s

99% Invisible