Alibaba optics session at OCP summit overflows, room posts 'This room is full' sign
firstadopter · x · 2026-10-14
Alibaba's optical scale-up session (230A, "Rethinking AI Scale-up with optics: from pluggable to (n)PO" by Zhiping Yao) at the OCP summit was so packed that screens declared "THIS ROOM IS FULL," with crowds lining the walls.
A follow-up session covered building the NPO (near-package optics) ecosystem for AI scaling — a clear signal of surging industry interest in optical interconnects for AI data centers.
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