Oh, snap

[u/Finnegan_Faux]

[u/Commercial_Ease8053]

No offense, but he said what we all knew deep down tbh. Qc is far off and we all believed in the potential… without a clue when that would be obtainable

[u/emanresuymsisihtolle → u/Commercial_Ease8053]

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Here is your DD about Rigetti

A reminder for everybody:

In 2017, Rigetti built an 8-qubit quantum computer and deployed it to the cloud (see Fig. 1).

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.06570

In 2017, Rigetti built a 20-qubit quantum computer and used it to solve a combinatorial problem with machine learning (see Fig. 2).

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1712.05771

In 2021, Rigetti demonstrated, for the first time, the entanglement between two qubits fabricated on two separate chips. This work was published in Nature.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2102.13293

In 2021, Rigetti invented a new type of tunable coupler which unlocks fast and high-fidelity two-qubit gate operations.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2103.07030

In 2021, Rigetti discovered that quantum circuit Born machines show superior performance compared to restricted Boltzmann machines in modeling financial data.

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2058-9565/abd3db/pdf

In 2023, Rigetti was awarded a 5-year contract with Air Force Research Lab and Phase 2 of Darpa Quantum Program.

https://investors.rigetti.com/news-releases/news-release-details/rigetti-computing-awarded-five-year-contract-air-force-research

https://investors.rigetti.com/news-releases/news-release-details/rigetti-computing-awarded-phase-2-darpa-benchmarking-program

In 2024, Rigetti discovered a new fabrication technique that improves the relaxation time of superconducting qubits. This work was published in Nature.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2304.13257
In 2024, Rigetti discovered a new technique for adjusting the resistance of Josephson junctions at room temperature. This discovery makes it easier to scale quantum computers based on superconducting qubits. The results were published in Nature.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.07415

In 2024, Rigetti and Riverlane successfully demonstrated low-latency quantum error correction achieving a mean decoding time per round below 1 microsecond.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2410.05202v1

In 2024, Nvidia announced the successful application of AI to automate the calibration of a 9-qubit quantum computer built by Rigetti.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/nvidia-data-center_nvidia-rigetti-quantum-machines-deliver-activity-7272339340922380288-S4tE?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

In 2024, Rigetti owns more than 150 patents in quantum computing.

https://patents.justia.com/assignee/rigetti-co-inc

In 2024, scientists proposed new ideas to scale superconducting quantum computers to thousands of qubits.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2411.10406

At the end of 2024, Rigetti built a quantum computer with 84 qubits with a two-qubit gate fidelity above 99%. This quantum computer has a similar performance to Willow, the chip built by Google.

https://investors.rigetti.com/news-releases/news-release-details/rigetti-computing-launches-84-qubit-ankaatm-3-system-achieves

[u/Murky-Education1349 → u/emanresuymsisihtolle]

at this rate we'll have 1 million qubits by 2050. so his estimate of 15-30 years seems basically spot on.

[u/blancorey → u/Murky-Education1349]

Except when progress isnt linear and a major breakthru happens perhaps via AGI within 5 yrs or less

[u/No_Feeling920 → u/blancorey]

AGI is not 5 years away. We already have enough hardware to achieve brain level computational power, yet models with general intelligence (human level problem solving capacity across all domains, figuring shit out on the go without prior training) are nowhere in sight. In case intelligence also includes sentience and self-awareness, then it's even further away.

[u/Murky-Education1349 → u/blancorey]

so your DD is basically just hopium.

sure man and maybe we'll have a time machine ready to go in 5 years. Or maybe the end of the world will happen and none of this matters.