1 month into the year and we have already hit Time’s cover magazine (ok, so did Theranos, but bear with me). The community is a bit divided with the implications of Time’s article, perhaps too much on the hype side but also a clear statement on how mainstream QC is getting. Two French startups raised capital this week. Welinq with a pre-seed round of €5M and Pasqal with €100M, to make a big push on neutral atoms. Xanadu also received $40M from the Canadian government as a push on their quantum strategy. All this fits with a study on QC patents, where the patented developments have multiplied almost by 10x in the last decade. On the cybersecurity side, Fujitsu published a series of tests on the RSA decryption that we have discussed in this newsletter several times, right on time for Kipu Quantum to release their pre-print on how to improve further on B. Yan et al research from December. They claim a success probability increase by a factor of 6 using a non-hybrid digitized-counterdiabatic quantum factorization (DCQF) algorithm.
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The Week in Quantum Computing - January 30th
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1 month into the year and we have already hit Time’s cover magazine (ok, so did Theranos, but bear with me). The community is a bit divided with the implications of Time’s article, perhaps too much on the hype side but also a clear statement on how mainstream QC is getting. Two French startups raised capital this week. Welinq with a pre-seed round of €5M and Pasqal with €100M, to make a big push on neutral atoms. Xanadu also received $40M from the Canadian government as a push on their quantum strategy. All this fits with a study on QC patents, where the patented developments have multiplied almost by 10x in the last decade. On the cybersecurity side, Fujitsu published a series of tests on the RSA decryption that we have discussed in this newsletter several times, right on time for Kipu Quantum to release their pre-print on how to improve further on B. Yan et al research from December. They claim a success probability increase by a factor of 6 using a non-hybrid digitized-counterdiabatic quantum factorization (DCQF) algorithm.