Photonic Computing Accelerates with New High‑Speed Engines, Major Funding Waves, and Record‑Breaking Quantum Loss Tolerance Breakthrough optical processor lets AI compute at the speed of … \n\n Key developments: A Tsinghua University team unveiled the Optical Feature Extraction Engine (OFE2), a 12.5 GHz light‑based processor that moves AI’s most demanding tasks from power‑hungry electronics to …