Lovely first week of the year! Two great papers dig deeper into the challenges of quantum (and AI-Quantum) computing. A piece in Nature and a paper titled “Quantum House of Cards”. Both are worth a read if you are investing your company’s money or your own. This week was the turn of China to distill a “magic logical qubit” on top a 66-qubit device. Right before releasing their 3rd generation device “Origin Wukong”, developed by Origin Quantum Computing Technology with 72 qubits. Staying in China. If Alibaba closed recently their quantum operations, now it has been the turn of Baidu following suit. What does this mean for the quantum efforts in China? Deinvesting or smoke and mirrors?JPMorgan released QOKit—a Python library implementing a fast QAOA simulator that works over cuQuantum. It seems that the best chances we have now are simulating with GPUs. Brenno Boer has left Pasqal to start a company that apparently goes in that direction. Meanwhile Rigetti has launched their Ankaa-2 and a collaboration with Moody’s to work in QML for Finance.
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The Week in Quantum Computing - January 8th
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Lovely first week of the year! Two great papers dig deeper into the challenges of quantum (and AI-Quantum) computing. A piece in Nature and a paper titled “Quantum House of Cards”. Both are worth a read if you are investing your company’s money or your own. This week was the turn of China to distill a “magic logical qubit” on top a 66-qubit device. Right before releasing their 3rd generation device “Origin Wukong”, developed by Origin Quantum Computing Technology with 72 qubits. Staying in China. If Alibaba closed recently their quantum operations, now it has been the turn of Baidu following suit. What does this mean for the quantum efforts in China? Deinvesting or smoke and mirrors?JPMorgan released QOKit—a Python library implementing a fast QAOA simulator that works over cuQuantum. It seems that the best chances we have now are simulating with GPUs. Brenno Boer has left Pasqal to start a company that apparently goes in that direction. Meanwhile Rigetti has launched their Ankaa-2 and a collaboration with Moody’s to work in QML for Finance.