Today’s Brief Commentary
At the Inside Quantum Technologies Quantum + AI conference in October, I gave the talk “Quantum AI: A Quantum Computing Industry Perspective.” In it, I included the following slide:
Now, I was joking, sort of, but this notion of combining the two technologies is not new. While I was at IBM in 2020, we talked about the future of computing being bits (classical computing with HPC), qubits (quantum computing), and neurons (AI). I provide a link to a paper from Gil and Green in the Related section.
We did not use the phrase “Generative AI” broadly then, though Generative Adversarial Networks had been around for more than half a decade.
It’s good to see progress from Microsoft, IonQ, and Quantinuum in this intersection of tech areas. I’ll have more to say elsewhere on this, so stay tuned.
Don’t forget to check out and bookmark my new sortable list of upcoming quantum technology conferences.
Contents
- Earnings Announcements and Financial Dealings
- Generative AI and Models
- Post-Quantum Cryptography and Security
- Quantum Computing
- Related Articles and Papers
Earnings Announcements and Financial Dealings
HQS Quantum Simulations receives funding from the European Innovation Council Transition Program
Author: Verena Kretschmer
Date: Tuesday, January 28, 2025
Excerpt: HQS Quantum Simulations represents a new era in quantum simulation. We harness the potential of quantum mechanics to develop innovative industrial applications. Our software solutions are based on innovative approaches to accurate and efficient material prediction and analysis at the quantum level. HQS software is used in the pharmaceutical and chemical industries, as well as in the development and research of quantum computers, sensors, optical components, and laser applications.
Generative AI and Models
Quantinuum Unveils Generative Quantum AI Framework that Harnesses Unique Quantum-Generated Data to Tackle Complex Problems Impossible for Classical Computing | Press Release
Date: Tuesday, February 4, 2025
Commentary: It’s about the workflow.
Excerpt: Quantinuum today announced a groundbreaking Generative Quantum AI framework (Gen QAI) – leveraging unique quantum-generated data to enable commercial applications in areas ranging from the development of new medicines, precise predictive modeling of financial markets and real-time optimization of global logistics and supply chains. The potential of these three capabilities alone is immense, and this framework is set to unlock solutions to other complex problems that classical computing cannot address.
Post-Quantum Cryptography and Security
Post-Quantum Cryptography Alliance Brings Accelerated Computing to Post Quantum Cryptography with NVIDIA cuPQC | The Linux Foundation
Date: Wednesday, January 29, 2025
Commentary: How many times can you put PQC or its expansion in one headline?
Excerpt: The Post-Quantum Cryptography Alliance (PQCA), a part of the Linux Foundation, today announced that its open source project, Open Quantum Safe (OQS), now integrates the NVIDIA cuPQC library to support and encourage the transition to quantum-resistant cryptography.
By leveraging cuPQC’s functionality within its LibOQS library, the Open Quantum Safe Project can provide users GPU-accelerated implementations of cryptographic primitives that are safe against attacks from future quantum computing technology – which threaten to crack other commonly used cryptosystems.
Intelligence After Next: Quantum Computing–Quantifying the Current State of the Art to Assess Cybersecurity Threats | MITRE
Authors: Yaakov Weinstein and Brandon Rodenburg
Date: Wednesday, January 29, 2025
Commentary: This is an interesting and fairly general paper directed at the US Intelligence Community. If I were your adversary and had harvested significant amounts of your non-PQC-protected data, do you really think I would tell you I had created a quantum computer that could decrypt it?
Excerpt: The Intelligence Community (IC) must protect classified data from the threat of a future quantum computer. This requires careful monitoring of the state of the art to know when the threat may be actualized. The IC can also use quantum computers for optimization, logistics, and AI.
Quantum Computing
Betting on qubits | Nature Electronics
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41928-025-01346-w
Date: Thursday, January 30, 2025
Excerpt: Quantum computing is our 2025 technology of the year. …
Today, the influence of quantum mechanics can be felt across numerous branches of research and technology, including in the understanding and development of semiconductor chips. But its impact in the advance of computing technology may just be getting started.
Related Articles and Papers
The Future of Computing: Bits + Neurons + Qubits | IBM
https://research.ibm.com/publications/the-future-of-computing-bits-neurons-qubits
Authors: Dario Gil and William M. J. Green
Date: Saturday, February 1, 2020
Excerpt: The future of computing will look fundamentally different than it has in the past. It will not be based on more and cheaper bits alone, but rather, it will be built upon bits + neurons + qubits. This future will enable the next generation of intelligent mission critical systems and accelerate the rate of science-driven discovery.
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