December 2024

Insider Brief: BTQ Technologies signed an MOU with South Korean quantum organizations to support global collaboration in industrial standards, events, and industry-academic programs, advancing quantum technology innovation. The partnership focuses on establishing quantum industrial standards, organizing collaborative events and seminars, and bridging academia-industry gaps to drive quantum technology adoption and Read more…

Insider Brief Researchers have demonstrated that relativistic quantum fields can act as “universal embezzlers,” allowing quantum states to be extracted with minimal disturbance, thanks to their infinite entanglement properties. The study highlights the unique classification of quantum fields through von Neumann algebras, suggesting potential pathways to identify more practical systems Read more…

Editor’s Note: In late fall 2024, we asked for contributions on predictions for the quantum industry in the coming year. What follows is a curated list of just some of those experts who submitted their key insights and emerging trends that may shape quantum computing and quantum information science for Read more…

Editor’s Note: We had so many submissions for our 2025 Expert Predictions that were mainly focused on post-quantum cybersecurity issues that we broke this out for a separate column. The following provides a curated list of just some of those experts who submitted their key insights and emerging trends that Read more…

Executive Summary The French quantum ecosystem ends 2024 as it started – strong and determined. The nation’s researchers and entrepreneurs were actively promoting global collaboration, as highlighted by the French Consulate in San Francisco’s welcome of French quantum startups. This month, Alice & Bob unveiled a roadmap to deliver a Read more…

Insider Brief: Qolab, Inc. secured over $16 million in its Series A funding round, led by Octave Ventures with co-investments from the Development Bank of Japan, WARF, and Phoenix Venture Partners, advancing its mission to develop utility-scale quantum computing technology. The funding will accelerate the development of Qolab’s high-coherence superconducting Read more…

Insider Brief Researchers developed CiFold, a graph-based system that reduces quantum resource overhead by up to 799.2%, enabling larger quantum computations on current hardware. CiFold dynamically identifies and folds repeated patterns within quantum circuits, optimizing execution and improving efficiency compared to existing methods. By leveraging hybrid quantum-classical computation, CiFold advances Read more…

What will 2025 hold for the quantum community? That’s not just a tough question; it’s an impossible one. But that has never stopped us from taking a swing in the dark at what we should expect to see happen in quantum over the next 12 months or so. The following Read more…

Insider Brief Russia unveiled its first 50-qubit quantum computer prototype using neutral rubidium atoms in September, developed by Lomonosov Moscow State University and the Russian Quantum Center under its Quantum Computing Roadmap. The prototype, part of a $790 million government-backed initiative, represents progress toward scaling quantum systems, though key performance Read more…

Insider Brief Google Quantum AI’s surface code demonstrated significant error reduction in quantum computing, but IBM’s competing QLDPC code promises similar results with far fewer qubits. IBM’s QLDPC code leverages a unique connectivity strategy to minimize qubit overhead, sparking debate over the future of error correction methods in the quantum Read more…