Insider Brief Infleqtion announces the launch of Oqtant, a “quantum innovation platform as a service”. The service will provide access to quantum matter for researchers, innovators, and students working on next-generation quantum applications. Because access […]
Insider Brief Extropic closed Series Seed funding round, raising a total of $14.1 million. The round was led by Steve Jang of Kindred Ventures, known for backing companies like Uber and Coinbase. Extropic was founded […]
Insider Brief The Australian federal government has unlocked $18.5 million in funding to establish the Australian Centre for Quantum Growth. The center is designed to build a quantum workforce and develop ties that can support […]
Insider Brief To large fanfare, IBM introduced the IBM Condor, a 1,121 superconducting qubit quantum processor. IBM said Quantum Heron processor has 133 fixed-frequency qubits and tunable couplers, and offers a 3-5 times improvement in […]
Insider Brief PUZZLE X, a forum on Exponential Technologies, hosted the first-ever Quantum Assembly at Barcelona recently. Zina Cinker, PUZZLE X Chief Creator, led the “Quantum Key Stakeholder Assembly,” to provide a platform for discussing […]
Insider Brief String theory and loop quantum gravity are the current leading candidates for a quantum theory of gravity. New theory suggests that that spacetime may be classical and not governed by quantum theory at […]
Insider Brief Meta’s leadership doesn’t believe quantum computing will be relevant to their business. The team also sees artificial general intelligence — AGI — as a distant threat/opportunity. Chief scientist Yann LeCun discussed his opinion […]
Insider Brief Algorithmiq reports it successfully ran a large-scale error mitigation experiments to date on IBM’s hardware. Algorithmiq’s proprietary error mitigation algorithms were run on the IBM Nazca, the 127 qubit Eagle processor. The team […]
Insider Brief US releases National Quantum Initiative (NQI) Supplement to the President’s FY 2024 Budget. The report notes that 2024 as a “critical” year for the NQI program. Also this week: the House Committee on […]
Insider Brief Scientists report on a new approach that can significantly improve the study and understanding of entanglement in quantum materials. The researchers were led by Peter Zoller at the University of Innsbruck and the Institute […]
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