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Rigetti Computing is a full-stack quantum computing company that designs and fabricates quantum chips, integrates them with a controlling architecture, and develops software for quantum algorithms. Based in Berkeley, California, they also offer a cloud platform called Forest, enabling developers to access and utilize their quantum processors.
Source: Conversation with Copilot, 9/22/2024
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 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 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 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…
Today’s Brief Commentary I’m writing this on the afternoon of December 10, the first full day of Q2B Silicon Valley in Santa Clara. Today’s news links have a few items from last week, more world leadership, which I have highlighted, and important news from Infleqtion/NVIDIA and Google. Infleqtion has now demonstrated logical qubits via NVIDIA’s…
Commentary and a selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Quantum. Today’s Brief Commentary We’ve entered the end-of-year quantum lull period, though we are between the SC24 conference last week and the Q2B Silicon Valley conference during the second week of December. In the United States, the Thanksgiving holiday is Thursday,…
Commentary and a selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Quantum. Today’s Brief Commentary There is so much going on across quantum technologies these days that I’ve had to use new categories for computing, networking, and sensing, both general and technical. This is a good thing, and I hope the sections…
Commentary and a selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Quantum. Today’s Brief Commentary Today’s links include three to press releases for planned Q3 2024 earnings reports for D-Wave, IonQ, and Rigetti Computing. All have announced deals this quarter and some interesting results. The big news was the US Air Force…
Commentary and a selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Quantum. Today’s Brief Commentary I’m speaking on Tuesday, October 29, at the Inside Quantum Technology Quantum+AI conference in New York City. The title is “Quantum AI: A Quantum Computing Industry Perspective.” On the occasion of this event, today’s edition of the…
A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Quantum. General News, Articles, and Analyses Nu Quantum leverages NQCC alliance to launch Oxbridge quantum computing initiative https://www.businessweekly.co.uk/posts/nu-quantum-leverages-nqcc-alliance-to-launch-oxbridge-quantum-computing-initiative Author: Tony Quested (Wednesday, October 2, 2024) “Cambridge’s Nu Quantum and the National Quantum Computing Centre (NQCC) in Harwell, today announce Project IDRA – the…
A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Quantum. General News, Articles, and Analyses 1. Kipu Quantum Team Says New Quantum Algorithm Outshines Existing Techniques https://thequantuminsider.com/2024/09/09/kipu-quantum-team-says-new-quantum-algorithm-outshines-existing-techniques/ Author: Matt Swayne (Monday, September 9, 2024) “Kipu Quantum-led team of researchers announced the successful testing of what they’re labeling the largest quantum optimization problem…
A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Quantum. General News, Articles, and Analyses 1. Quantum Computing Jobs The Careers Of The Future https://quantumzeitgeist.com/quantum-computing-jobs-the-careers-of-the-future/ (Tuesday, August 27, 2024) “Quantum computing is a rapidly evolving field that has gained significant attention in recent years due to its potential to revolutionize various industries…