Channel: ExplainingComputers

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Description: Quantum computing review of the past 12 months, including IBM roadmaps, Zuchongzhi and quantum supremacy, photonic quantum computing, and quantum computing as a service (QCaaS). More information on quantum computing, including links to all of the companies discussed or listed in the video, can be found at: explainingcomputers.com/quantum.html Links to specific announcements, developments and websites included in the video are as follows: QUANTUM PIONEERS: Honeywell Quantum Computing & Cambridge Quantum Computing to combine (press release, June 8 2021): honeywell.com/us/en/press/2021/06/honeywell-quantum-solutions-and-cambridge-quantum-computing-will-combine-to-form-worlds-largest-most-advanced-quantum-business Honeywell’s claim to have build the most powerful quantum computer (press release, June 2020): honeywell.com/us/en/news/2020/06/the-worlds-highest-performing-quantum-computer-is-here IBM: IBM’s “Roadmap for Scaling Quantum Technology” (blog post, September 2020) : ibm.com/blogs/research/2020/09/ibm-quantum-roadmap IBM’s “Roadmap for building an open quantum software ecosystem” (blog post, February 2021): ibm.com/blogs/research/2021/02/quantum-development-roadmap “IBM Quantum delivers 120x speedup of quantum workloads with Qiskit Runtime” (blog post, May 11 2021): research.ibm.com/blog/120x-quantum-speedup ZUCHONGZHI & QUANTUM SUPREMACY: “China's 66-Qubit 2D Quantum Computer Sets New Processing Record”, (Hypebeast, July 14 2021): hypebeast.com/2021/7/university-of-science-and-technology-of-china-66-qubits-2d-programable-computer-zuchongzhi-news Google’s October 2019 claim to quantum supremacy (article from Nature, October 23 2019): nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1666-5 IBM blog post disputing Google’s quantum supremacy claim (October 21 2019): ibm.com/blogs/research/2019/10/on-quantum-supremacy Zuchongzhi quantum computational advantage pre-publication paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2106.14734.pdf XANADU & PSIQUANTUM: Xanadu photonic quantum computing website: xanadu.ai Brilliant video from Xanadu detailing how their photonic quantum processors work: youtu.be/v7iAqcFCTQQ Xanadu launches first photonic cloud computing service (IEEE, September 9 2020): spectrum.ieee.org/photonic-quantum Xanadu obtains $100m funding (press release, May 25 2021): prnewswire.com/news-releases/xanadu-closes-100m-usd-series-b-to-build-a-fault-tolerant-photonic-quantum-computer-301298647.html Xanadu obtains DARPA grant (press release, July 20 2021): prnewswire.com/news-releases/xanadu-awarded-darpa-grant-to-develop-novel-quantum-compiler-for-nisq-based-machines-301337111.html Xanadu Penny Lane (quantum neural network Python library) website: pennylane.ai Xanadu Strawberry Fields (quantum photonic Python library) website: strawberryfields.ai PsiQuantum photonic quantum computing website: psiquantum.com PsyQuantum and GLOBAL FOUNDTRIES “to build full-scale quantum computer” (press release, May 5 2021): psiquantum.com/news/psiquantum-and-globalfoundries-to-build-the-worlds-first-full-scale-quantum-computer PsiQuantum $450m funding (press release, July 27 2021): psiquantum.com/news/psiquantum-closes-450-million-funding-round-to-build-the-worlds-first-commercially-viable-quantum-computer THE EXPANDING QUANTUM CLOUD / QCaaS: IBM announces first quantum computer available over the Internet (press release, May 2016): newsroom.ibm.com/2016-05-03-IBM-Makes-Quantum-Computing-Available-on-IBM-Cloud-to-Accelerate-Innovation IBM quantum computing services: quantum-computing.ibm.com/services Google Quantum AI: quantumai.google Rigetti Quantum Cloud Services: qcs.rigetti.com/sign-in Xanadu Quantum Cloud: xanadu.ai/cloud Oxford Quantum Circuits QCaaS: oxfordquantumcircuits.com/products D-Wave Systems LEAP quantum cloud platform: dwavesys.com/solutions-and-products/cloud-platform Amazon Braket: aws.amazon.com/braket Microsoft Azure Quantum: azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/services/quantum More videos on computing and related topics can be found at: youtube.com/explainingcomputers You may also like my ExplainingTheFuture channel at: youtube.com/explainingthefuture Chapters: 00:00 Introduction 00:44 Quantum Basics 02:18 Quantum Pioneers 03:19 IBM 06:00 Zuchongzhi 08:10 Xanadu & PsiQuantum 10:36 The Expanding Quantum Cloud (QCaaS)