What If We Stopped Using GPUs? | YC Paper Club

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This Y Combinator Paper Club explores emerging alternatives to GPU-based computing, covering gradient-free optimizers as replacements for backpropagation, optical computing for running diffusion models using light propagation, the state of neuromorphic computing in 2026, and living brain cell computers that learned to play Doom. Designed for startup founders, researchers, and engineers exploring the future of compute beyond traditional GPU architectures.