Q.ANT Launches Open-Source SDK for Photonic Computing
THE SO WHAT
Opening a photonic computing SDK pulls this tech out of the lab and into the hands of regular developers. If you’re betting on long-term compute differentiation, it’s time to assign someone to prototype on these toolchains and understand what workloads might jump first when the hardware matures.
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