Manton Reece - AI and fiber optics (opens in new tab)

I enjoyed about how AI models will become invisible plumbing. Nice history lesson with fiber-optic cables too: A single strand of glass can carry only so much data at one wavelength – think of it as one lane of a highway. Wavelength Division Multiplexing, or WDM, was the insight that you could send multiple signals down that same strand simultaneously, each on a different color of light, the way a prism splits white light into its spectrum. Each color carries its own independent stream of dat...