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Kudos to them, I applaud any initiative in the quantum computing space. That said I feel companies like Riverlane or Q-CTRL are way too early in the market. The
by ThePhysicist 6y ago
Kudos to them, I applaud any initiative in the quantum computing space. That said I feel companies like Riverlane or Q-CTRL are way too early in the market. There are still so many open questions regarding which architecture and technology is best suited for quantum computing, and there isn't yet a single practically relevant problem that can be solved on a NISQ quantum computer (to my knowledge). Building a software company on such a shifting hardware landscape is quite bold. Having built several technology companies with novel, albeit much less cutting-edge technologies I would be very wary getting in so early into a field that's barely starting to get commercialized. But again, kudos to them for being so early in the game, I hope it'll work out for them.
- Whirl 6y agoI’m of a similar opinion, but with the note that QCTRL actually makes products that people want. The current state of the art in QC requires that pretty much everyone needs some kind of pulse shaping/noise reduction, which is (some of?) what QCTRL provides. Plus the quantum sensing space benefits greatly from such techniques as well. So even if quantum computing falls into a “quantum winter” it’s likely that quantum sensing will pull through and so QCTRL might survive. Those other software companies are also competing with the IBMs, Googles, and Rigettis that are also building similar software for the the hardware they’re making.
- fsh 6y agoTo me it feels like these companies are trying to sell Kubernetes to a community that has not yet invented the vacuum tube (and might never manage to).
- divtiwari 6y agoBravo!!! Apt analogy :)