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Great Sky Unveils Brain-like Computing Architecture Built for the Next Era of AI
After more than a decade of research at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the team behind Great Sky is ready to tell its story publicly. Here's what we've been building — and why we believe it changes everything.
Ken Segall's Tech X Talk for the IEEE Council on Superconductivity
Great Sky's Ken Segall joins the IEEE Council on Superconductivity to discuss how superconductors are transforming AI.
Can Light-Connected AI Enable Bigger Brains?
Great Sky founder Jeff Shainline joins EE Times' Brains and Machines podcast to break down the physics behind Great Sky's superconducting neural networks.
Great Sky Selected for DOE’s Genesis Mission
Great Sky has been selected for Phase I of the DOE's Genesis Mission, partnering with Brookhaven National Laboratory to scale its superconducting neural networks for real-time fusion diagnostics and beyond.
Key Principles of Intelligence
Most of the industry is racing to make intelligence work better on today's computing hardware. Great Sky is asking whether that hardware is the right foundation to begin with. Founder Jeff Shainline lays out the first principles behind that question, and the case for building AI systems that physically instantiate intelligence rather than digitally simulate it.
What's Next After GPUs?
Jeff Shainline, co-founder and CEO of Great Sky, breaks down a radically different future for AI infrastructure on The Neuron - AI News Podcast.
Superconductors and Light Will Transform AI
IEEE article featuring Great Sky. Conventional AI faces growing obstacles because its hardware and algorithms are poorly matched to the mechanisms of biological intelligence, driving high power consumption and making data-intensive tasks far more difficult than they are for humans. Superconducting optoelectronic networks (SOEN) combine superconducting computation with optical communication to implement neural systems more directly.
SOENs in Space
Launching compute into space is an idea that has recently gained attention. Looking closely at the implications, it is clear that superconducting optoelectronic networks (SOENs) bring tremendous advantages relative to conventional computational systems for large-scale AI in space.
Great Sky Emerges from NIST: A New Kind of AI Hardware Company
Ten years in development, new superconducting, optically connected architecture overcomes the limits of GPUs and transformers—unlocking multimodal intelligence operating a million times faster than current approaches.
The History of Great Sky
How the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) incubated the team that will transform AI computing
Perspective on DeepSeek from Great Sky
The DeepSeek moment sent shockwaves through the AI world. Jeff Shainline unpacks what it actually means — and why it makes the case for Great Sky stronger than ever.
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