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ERC Advanced Grant for Wolfram Pernice

3.7.2025

The ERC project aims to develop a new kind of AI hardware inspired by how the brain handles uncertainty, using light instead of electricity to perform calculations. By harnessing the natural randomness of light through photonic chips, the goal is to enable energy-efficient and ultra-fast probabilistic computing—crucial for real-time applications like autonomous navigation. The result will be hybrid systems that combine probabilistic reasoning with high-speed processing, paving the way for intelligent machines that are both powerful and sustainable.

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