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While many experts in the quantum industry are concerned about the hype surrounding the technology, some are suggesting quantum tech might not be hyped enough. According to one respected deep-tech investor, quantum computing is still underestimated and is only a few years away from commercial use.

Karthee Madasamy, founder of Silicon Valley venture fund MFV Partners, told Nikkei Asia he sees strong momentum in quantum computing, likening it to how ChatGPT surprised the world.

“People are going to underestimate [quantum computing] … It’s like ChatGPT,” he told Nikkei Asia. “Until ChatGPT, nobody was thinking about natural language … Now everybody’s like, ‘It’s going to kill this world.’”

For the first time, researchers transformed light into a quantum crystalline structure to create a “supersolid” that’s both solid and liquid at the same time. Here’s what that means, and why it’s such a big step forward.

Scientists have tapped into the Summit supercomputer to study an elaborate molecular pathway called nucleotide excision repair (NER). This research reveals how damaged strands of DNA are repaired through this molecular pathway, nucleotide excision repair.

NER’s protein components can change shape to perform different functions of repair on broken strands of DNA.

A team of scientists from Georgia State University built a computer model of a critical NER component called the pre-incision complex (PInC) that plays a key role in regulating DNA repair processes in the latter stages of the NER pathway.