If successful, the startup could beat industry leaders IBM, Microsoft, and Google to error-corrected quantum computing.
QuEra, a quantum computing startup founded by researchers from Harvard and MIT, recently released what may be the most ambitious quantum technology roadmap we’ve seen yet.
The company plans on releasing a quantum computer with 100 logical qubits and 10,000 physical qubits by 2026. It also claims this planned system will demonstrate “practical quantum advantage,” meaning they’d be capable of useful computation feats that classical, binary computers aren’t.
There’s currently no consensus in the scientific community as to when or even if “quantum advantage” will be reached at a practical level. Scientists have conducted myriad experiments using quantum computers to solve problems considered unsolvable by classical computers, but the majority of these involved running specific algorithms with little or no practical use outside of laboratory tests.
