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upyourego OP t1_ivufevu wrote

Reply to comment by ShortForNothing in IBM says its future is in quantum-centered supercomputing and plans to have the 4,000 qubit 'System Two' online by 2025, stitching three together for a 16,000 qubit machine soon after. It uses chip to chip communication to allow them to work in concert for more rapid scale-up. by upyourego

At a briefing with IBM I was told they have a large number of finance and pharmaceutical customers due to the ability quantum will have to carry out rapid calculations. They’ve also recently signed a deal with Vodafone for network analysis using quantum computing.

Obviously the real benefit isn’t here yet - it will take more qubits (hundreds of thousands) and better fidelity and error correction - but there are existing use cases. Some of these are algorithms for fraud detection running on IBM hardware.

Apparently there are significant wait times to use quantum hardware available via AWS

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