If you know me, you’ll know that I’m obsessed with all things AI, Robots (the cute ones like Robot Dreams, the humanoid ones like KURI who I met at SXSW or Pepper who I met in Tokyo, the first one from Karel Čapek’s play “R.U.R.”—short for “Rossum’s Universal Robots”…)
AND Quantum!
So when I read this early Feb 2025…. it was the best news of the year: Oxford Scientists Say They’ve Achieved Quantum Teleportation. I hope I live long enough to experience this is everyday life.
And then few days later… our own Microsoft quantum breakthrough promises to usher in the next era of computing in ‘years, not decades’. In our CEO, Satya Nadella’s words:
“ After a nearly 20 year pursuit, we’ve created an entirely new state of matter, unlocked by a new class of materials, topoconductors, that enable a fundamental leap in computing. It powers Majorana 1, the first quantum processing unit built on a topological core. We believe this breakthrough will allow us to create a truly meaningful quantum computer not in decades, as some have predicted, but in years. “
GeekWire Podcast did a great job explaining, in jargon-free terms, the impact of such discovery.
Virginie Pontruché 