Google, Alibaba Spar Over Timeline for 'Quantum Supremacy'
Google, Alibaba Spar Over Timeline for 'Quantum Supremacy'
Business, Spoken · SpokenLayer
May 23, 20187m 5s
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Show Notes
Google’s quantum computing researchers have been planning a party—but new results from a competing team at China’s Alibaba may have postponed it. The China-America corporate rivalry on an obscure frontier of physics illustrates a growing contest between nations and companies hoping to create a new form of improbably powerful computer. In March, Google unveiled a chip called Bristlecone intended to set a computing milestone.
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