AI investors have focused on chips, memory and data centres. But the real race is now about inference speed — how fast AI can think and respond in real time. And the next breakthrough may not come from more electrons… but from light itself.
We see machines that can do almost everything, physically and mentally, that a human can do. But with none of the sick days or bad attitudes that characterize our race.
The US reneged on its promise to exchange dollars for gold in August of 1971. Dollars were still the world’s reserve currency, but nobody had any guarantee that they would remain limited and valuable.