Institute of Photonic Chips (IPC) is a research institute established in the service of the national innovation-driven strategy and the development of the Shanghai Science and Technology Innovation Center in 2021. Led by Prof. Min Gu, it aims at the cutting-edge and frontier research of the world and focuses on optical intelligence to achieve the disruptive technological breakthrough. With a group of top scientists from different research backgrounds, the institute aspires to be a world-class multi-disciplinary research powerhouse for optically-driven artificial intelligence, developing science and technology in on-chip photonic artificial-intelligence devices for faster, greener and safer future. The institute consists of six research platforms: all optical machine Learning platform, bio-imaging platform, research innovation and translation platform, etc.