Stefan Mileschin

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Quantum computing startup Xanadu launched its quantum cloud platform, where developers can access the company's gate-based photonic quantum processors with 8-qubit or 12-qubit chips, with 24-qubit chips coming "in the next month or so".

The startup expects to 'roughly double' the number of qubits available in its cloud every six months and will let businesses, developers, and researchers build novel solutions to problems in finance, quantum chemistry, machine learning, and graph analytics.

Quantum computing leverages qubits (unlike bits that can only be in a state of 0 or 1, qubits can also be in a superposition of the two) to perform computations that would be much more difficult for a classical computer.

Xanadu has been developing quantum computers based on photonics since its founding in September 2016. Its quantum processors operate at room temperature and can be integrated into existing fibre optic-based telecommunication infrastructure.

https://fudzilla.com/news/51472-xana...cloud-platform