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> Big car manufacturers, which are expected to be some of the first quantum computing customers, are also clustered in the region.

What do big car manufacturers want quantum computers for?

Also, supposedly they were going to deliver one of their systems to the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre in Australia in June, but neither Pawsey nor Quantum Brilliance have any new articles saying it's actually happened. Quantum Brilliance are just talking about having raised money [0], and Pawsey doesn't mention it again [1].

Seems like hype, for something that maybe doesn't exist?

[0] https://quantumbrilliance.com/news-media [1] https://pawsey.org.au/news-and-events/news/

Here is an example: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2011.03403.pdf

Anything with high scale manufacturing where a %0.01 percent decrease in overhead means millions saved would be interested in certain algorithms quantum computers are good at.

For those looking for qubit #:

  The Quantum Brilliance quantum accelerators have only two qubits at the moment, paltry compared to the 72-qubit systems that Google has developed. Horsley said, however, that the company can reach 50 qubits by 2025.

I don't trust Sifted (this is my first time seeing the site). An article linked on the sidebar is titled "The only answer to the quantum cybersecurity threat is quantum." The headline is wrong and the article makes no argument for why quantum algorithms are the only solution. Classical algorithms exist for quantum resistant cryptography.

>The startup buys synthetic diamonds from Element Six, the synthetic diamond manufacturer, part of the De Beers Group

Imagine a future where quantum computing is monopolized by De Beers...

Imagine a pump-and-dump with diamonds, based on hype about quantum woo.

I mean, there is no penny stock involved, and the hype is coming from the top public university in Australia, right? So who's supposed to be pumping and dumping?

Obviously the implications of things coming out of academia are normally and frequently exaggerated, but I don't see why you are implying it's an out and out con. Would you react the same way if it was MIT?

Here are some of the press releases:

https://www.anu.edu.au/news/all-news/world%E2%80%99s-first-r...

https://www.anu.edu.au/news/all-news/anu-start-up-to-power-n...

https://www.anu.edu.au/news/all-news/anu-spin-out-company-se...

https://www.anu.edu.au/news/all-news/anu-at-forefront-of-aus...

How many qubits are needed to be faster than emulation? If they get to 50 by 2025 is that at all interesting?

Nonsense, grift, bullshit sandwich.

It seems to be coming out of Australian National University, which is a real place.

Although I had never heard of it and it sounded a bit fake to my American ear, they seem to have alumni like Kevin Rudd and Kim Beazley, whose names seem vaguely familiar.

So it appears to be both real and the leading university in Australia, even if the prospects of the research could be exaggerated in the reporting or press releases.

even real places produce real bulls.

I'm aware, but standard major university press release exaggeration is different from penny stock pump and dump or whatever.

This seems like an investment scam.

Ah yes, because size was the big issue with practical quantum computing /s

The Quantum.... it, it makes it... makes it faster... right?

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