Energy efficient optical interconnects for the next generation of AI compute

The rapid evolution of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is driving larger and highly interconnected clusters along with the need to shuffle huge quantities of data between compute elements. The next generation of larger AI systems will need cost effective, low latency, dense, and energy efficient optical interconnections between the compute elements to facilitate these data transfers in these new systems. The benefits, considerations, and challenges of adopting photonics for AI compute will be discussed.