Atom Computing

Yeah, we have actually three quantum investments.

We did D-Wave years ago, long before I was there, Atom Computing, and what's the third one? INQ.

So three different modes, three different modalities.

I think Again, I'm using a semiconductor paradigm.

The jury's still out on where that's going to be.

I think IonQ is reasonably far ahead at this point, but we'll see.

Atom's got, you know, with the neutral ion computing has potential to have much less error and a leg up on the other folks.

But there's new tech out there too.

And different companies are using a different physical system for that purpose.

So we have a superconducting circus used by IBM and Google and the Trap Ions from Continuum and INQ, Natural Atoms for Quera, Pascal, Atom Computing.

Some of them were even my guests in the past.

And DRack is using silicon spin.

The reported valuation is 5.4 billion.

Neutral atoms already have substantial contenders, including QEra, Atom Computing, Pascal, Planck, and Google, with ambitious error correction and scaling plans.

So the field remains crowded with no single modality breaking away.

Major engineering milestones remain, and each modality has its own strengths and weaknesses.

So Dirac, the Sydney-based quantum computing firm that is developing silicon quantum dot technology, is one of only four companies to reach the third and final stage of the Quantum Benchmarking Initiative, which is run by DARPA to basically test and validate the likelihood that we'll reach utility scale quantum computing by twenty thirty-three.

So yeah, it was DARPA, IBM, IonQ, and Atom Computing that moved forward on Thursday.

And earlier there was a-- Microsoft and PsiQuantum also progressed as part of another program, so they kind of got a fast track in.

This was the first, as I'm aware, sort of real batch through the QBI program.

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