There's a significant gap of engineering effort between practical quantum at the scale of "rent time on the small handful of systems in the world that can do th

There's a significant gap of engineering effort between practical quantum at the scale of "rent time on the small handful of systems in the world that can do this" vs. at the scale of "anyone can rent or buy hardware to do this at scale." IBM may possibly be able to recoup their investment in quantum by whale-hunting with the former (and certainly some of the crypto-breaking characteristics will make that quite lucrative to sell to state-level agencies), but it will likely be decades before every company in the world is asking the question "how can quantum help us" the way they are with generative AI.