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Marc Bolitho Bet the Company on the Expensive Part of AI
After 28 years in automotive electronics, Marc Bolitho left the predictable road for a semiconductor startup - then redirected that startup when ChatGPT changed the map. His operating idea is simple enough to remember: stay level, work as one team, and follow the economics all the way down to the math.
Zaijun Chen
Zaijun Chen is a physicist-turned-founder building light-powered computers for artificial intelligence. As co-founder and CEO of Opticore, he is developing photonic optical processing units (OPUs) that the company says are up to 100x more energy efficient and 25x denser than leading GPUs. Trained at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics and MIT, and now director of the Laboratory of Intelligent and Quantum Photonics at USC, Chen turned a decade of precision-optics research into a venture-backed bet that the future of AI compute runs on photons instead of electrons.