Chinese VC firm CAS Star's decade-long bet on photonics gains traction as AI demands new computing frontiers
Half-baked but well-meaning. A passing snack.
Summary
CAS Star, a Chinese venture capital firm born from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has been investing in photonics technology for over a decade. As AI data centers hit physical limits, photonics (using light for computing) is gaining global attention as the next computing frontier. Founder Mi Lei sees this as delayed validation of a long-held thesis about photonics driving industrial upgrading.
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