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Q.ANT demonstrated production-relevant AI workloads on its second-generation photonic Native Processing Unit, including a diffusion model for image-to-image synthesis and an xLSTM-based time series prediction model.
The company said the demonstrations show its photonic architecture can support generative AI and sequential forecasting workloads while targeting 30 times the energy efficiency of classical processors for equivalent matrix operations at the photonic circuit level.
The ISC High Performance 2026 demonstrations follow recent ecosystem milestones, including Daisytuner’s PyTorch-to-photonic-hardware object detection deployment, commercial orders through IONOS and deployments at European supercomputing centers.
PRESS RELEASE — Q.ANT, the pioneer in commercial photonic computing, today demonstrated the first complex, production-relevant AI workloads on its photonic hardware.
