Canada’s Impressive Number of QC Software Companies Putting U.S in The Shade
Twenty Startups Nobody can doubt that in the private sector in quantum computing (QC) the U.S is the dominant player. As of September 2020 from statistics taken from TQD’s extensive dataset, there are, all told, thirty-six QC companies active within the United States of America. Of those three dozen, sixteen are hardware companies while the […]
Baidu Announces Cloud-Based Quantum Computing Platform
China-based Baidu Inc. announced in a blog post that it has released a new cloud-based quantum computing platform called Quantum Leaf that is designed for programming, simulating and executing quantum workloads. The company added the cloud-based QC platform is aimed at providing the quantum programming environment for Quantum infrastructure as a Service (QaaS). In May, […]
U.S. House Bill Would Authorize $100 Million to Build Out Robust Quantum Infrastructure
The House of Representatives passed legislation to advance the Energy Department’s initiative infrastructure for a quantum network, according to a story in NexGov. The Quantum Network Infrastructure Act would authorize $100 million to Energy’s Office of Science for 2021 through 2025 to form and maintain the effort. The bill was introduced by co-chairs of the National […]
Zapata Announces Commercial Release of Orquestra, the Workflow-Based, Modular Toolset for Applied Quantum Computing
Zapata Computing, a leading enterprise software company for quantum computing, today announced the commercial release of Orquestra®, a workflow-based, unified toolset for applied quantum computing that allows users to compose and run quantum workflows across a range of devices, both quantum and classical, on a unified quantum operating environment. Previously accessible only to Early Access Program […]
Bavarian State Government Invests 120 Million Euros in Quantum Science and Tech
The Bavarian state government is funding quantum science and technology (QWT) with around 120 million euros over the next two years, Prime Minister Markus Söder announced after a recent the cabinet meeting. In a news release (in German), the government reported that an alliance of non-university research institutions with the participation of the Bavarian Academy […]
Center for a New American Security Launches U.S. National Technology Strategy Initiative
The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) today announced the launch of its U.S. National Technology Strategy project, a U.S. government–supported initiative to bolster American innovation and technological leadership, according to a news release. The center is using its program to help the U.S. government establish a coherent, comprehensive national strategy to accelerate American innovation […]
Russian Startup Offers Unconditional Security Founded On Quantum Basic Laws
Photo: Franco Buttazzoni Future Attacks In connection with an article I recently published in TQD on university spinouts comes QRate Quantum Communications, a Russian startup founded out of the Russian Quantum Center (RQC) in 2015. A leader in quantum communications, its focus is finding solutions for the telecommunications and banking industries. Headed by CTO Yury […]
TQD Exclusive: For Q-CTRL CEO, Michael Biercuk, it’s About Time – And Control – for Quantum Technologies
First, the control. According to CEO and founder Michael J. Biercuk, Q-CTRL’s fundamental mission is to deliver tools to help solve the most pressing challenges for quantum technology in the NISQ era and beyond: controlling noise and decoherence. In the early 2000s as a graduate student and, later, as a researcher, Biercuk began building and […]
With The Number of QC Programs Growing in Colleges in The US, Georgia Tech is a Beacon For Those in The South
Photo: Ian Schneider The Magnificent Eight Of the over fifty (last count) U.S universities currently with quantum computing programs collated from TQD dataset, geographically speaking most are represented by institutes from the north and west of the country. This is not to say the south is a weak link in research, but it does seem […]
Spinout, Spinoff, Call Them What You Will, But in Quantum Computing, They’re Becoming Ever-Popular
Photo: Stanislav Kondriatev Stumbling Block Startups begin life in many shapes and forms: it could be a few college buddies coming together, or a prophetic founder with a vision recruiting for talent online. For many technological initiatives, this is a good way to go about starting the journey towards entrepreneurial success. Quantum computing (QC), however — especially […]