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# [A Government Lab Built a Computer That Runs on Heat. It Could Make AI 10 Billion Times Cheaper.](https://mothasa.hashnode.dev/a-government-lab-built-a-computer-that-runs-on-heat-it-could-make-ai-10-billion-times-cheaper?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

A physicist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory just demonstrated something that sounds impossible: a computer that generates images the same way AI does, but uses the heat it would normally waste as its primary fuel. The theoretical energy savi...

Feb 27 · 4 min read · mothasa.hashnode.dev  
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