As AI models continue to grow in size and complexity, traditional electrical interconnects are becoming the limiting factor for performance, power efficiency, and scalability. In this presentation, Ayar Labs CTO and Co-Founder Vladimir Stojanovic explores how CPO enables the next generation of AI infrastructure by eliminating bandwidth and distance constraints, extending scale-up beyond a single rack, and unlocking new system architectures with disaggregated memory. Learn how optical connectivity can improve inference performance, increase throughput per watt, and support AI clusters with thousands of GPUs working together as a single compute fabric.