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IBM (International Business Machines Corporation) is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York, known for its innovations in AI, cloud computing, and quantum computing. Founded in 1911, IBM operates in over 175 countries and has a long history of technological advancements and research.
Today’s Brief Commentary: Microsoft made a lot of news this week in the quantum space via its giant marketing and communication machine with the introduction of its Majorana-1 chip. (All the big corporations have giant marketing and communication machines. Cf. Google, IBM, and NVIDIA.) On the same day, they introduced Muse, a generative AI “World…
Today’s Brief Commentary: Today, I am directing my remarks toward quantum computing companies, particularly small ones. Many of your websites need work. Here are a few suggestions: Be explicit about your quantum computing modality and paradigm. For example: “We implement the digital paradigm using neutral atom qubits.” Say you support specific quantum software development kit…
Today’s Brief Commentary: I’m in catch-up mode after traveling to Riyadh last week for the LEAP / DeepFest 2025 event. I want to thank the organizers for a truly first-class experience from start to finish. The links below include the YouTube video of my Quantum and AI DeepFest panel and an article I wrote for…
Today’s Brief Commentary: This week’s big news is that QuEra finally announced its large funding round. They telegraphed this last year by letting people know that Google had given them “a boatload of cash.” Okay, I made that quote up, but the final amount of $230 M from all investors is impressive. Congratulations to the…
Today’s Brief Commentary: I’m writing this at the tail end of my trip to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to speak at the huge (> 100,000 people) LEAP / DeepFest 2025 event. It’s been a busy week, and yesterday, I was on the panel “Quantum Leap: The Intersection of Quantum Computing and AI.” Areiel Wolanow moderated, with…
What Happened? On Tuesday, February 4, 2025, AMD announced its financial results for the Q4 2024 quarter and 2024 fiscal year ending December 28, 2024. See its press release for the full details. The Numbers AMD had a strong quarter, with GAAP sequential quarter revenue up 12.3% and year-to-year up 24.2%. GAAP Diluted Earnings Per…
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…
Today’s Brief Commentary: Welcome to the first newsletter after I announced the formation of my Sutor Group Intelligence and Advisory company last Friday. These newsletters will continue to be free, and I’ll put them on LinkedIn, Substack, and the Sutor Group website. If I had my choice, I would have you subscribe to and read…
Let me begin with a brief review of my working life. When I was 12, I got a paper route and started mowing lawns. No, that’s going too far back. Here’s the TL;DR version: 39 years, 2 months, and 8 days (14,315 days total) at IBM 2 years (731 days) at ColdQuanta / Infleqtion 11…
Today’s Brief Commentary The word of the day is: Quantum Error Correction (QEC) and Fault Tolerance Okay, maybe that’s longer than one word. The more I dug into the latest quantum news and articles, the more QEC kept coming up. Let’s look at the question, “How should we change our approach to QEC when we…
Commentary and a selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about AI. Today’s Brief Commentary The first link today is to an update from The Futurum Group about the advanced semiconductor AI accelerator market. Everything else is about Generative AI. It’s easy to say that GenAI is over-hyped (it is), dominates the…
Commentary and a selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Quantum. Today’s Brief Commentary This last week has been the first of 2025 when the stock prices for public quantum companies have not dominated discussions. That topic is not going away, but we are beginning to see more announcements of solid…
Commentary and a selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Quantum. Today’s Brief Commentary No commentary today, just an announcement. Together with Lawrence Gasman, I’ll be putting together the program for the next Inside Quantum Technology Q+AI conference in New York City from October 20 to 22. That’s a while from…
Commentary and a selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about AI. Today’s Brief Commentary Two of the links today are related to an IBM survey of software developers regarding the creation of generative AI apps. TLDR: it’s not easy, and the tools aren’t great. Developers tend to build the tools they…
Commentary and a selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Quantum. Today’s Brief Commentary While it sometimes seems that everyone who has heard the term “AI” has started their own Substack newsletter on the topic, we are not quite there with quantum computing. Nevertheless, we appear to be gaining at least…
Commentary and a selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Quantum. Today’s Brief Commentary I’m exhausted from hearing about and discussing the drop in stock prices of quantum companies (and even some that only have “quantum” in their names). Here is my net: these quantum computing stocks were driven up to…
Commentary and a selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Quantum. Today’s Brief Commentary So, maybe quantum computing stocks won’t keep going up forever. Recent comments from Jim Cramer and Jensen Huang have taken the shine off the huge recent increases. It appears that each believes Practical Quantum Advantage is many…
Commentary and a selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Quantum. Today’s Brief Commentary This is my last quantum newsletter for 2024, and I’m anxious to get going with 2025. This year had many highlights but was marred by extra hype and public misunderstandings in the last several weeks. I don’t…
Commentary and a selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Quantum. Today’s Brief Commentary Plastic glass. Jumbo shrimp. Open secret. These are all examples of oxymorons, phrases whose first halves seem to be the opposite of the second. I read another one over the weekend: Quantum computing classical hardware. To be…
Commentary and a selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about AI. Today’s Brief Commentary I spent this last week at the Q2B conference in Santa Clara, California, so my mind has focused more on quantum technologies than AI. That’s my excuse for playing catch-up on AI topics in this newsletter edition….