{"id":131170,"date":"2021-11-24T14:23:21","date_gmt":"2021-11-24T22:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/256-qubit-quantum-computer-unveiled"},"modified":"2021-11-24T14:23:21","modified_gmt":"2021-11-24T22:23:21","slug":"256-qubit-quantum-computer-unveiled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/256-qubit-quantum-computer-unveiled","title":{"rendered":"256-qubit Quantum Computer Unveiled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/256-qubit-quantum-computer-unveiled.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The first 256-qubit quantum computer has been announced by startup company QuEra, founded by MIT and Harvard scientists.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>QuEra Computing Inc. \u2013 a new Boston, Massachusetts-based company \u2013 has emerged from stealth mode with $17 million in funding and has completed the assembly of a 256-qubit device. Its funders include Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten, Day One Ventures, Frontiers Capital, and the leading tech investors Serguei Beloussov and Paul Maritz. The company recently received a DARPA award, and has already generated $11 million in revenue.<\/p>\n<p>QuEra Computing recently achieved ground-breaking research on neutral atoms, developed at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which is being used as the basis for a highly scalable, programmable quantum computer solution. The QuEra team is aiming to build the world\u2019s most powerful quantum computers to take on computational tasks that are currently deemed impossibly hard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first 256-qubit quantum computer has been announced by startup company QuEra, founded by MIT and Harvard scientists. QuEra Computing Inc. \u2013 a new Boston, Massachusetts-based company \u2013 has emerged from stealth mode with $17 million in funding and has completed the assembly of a 256-qubit device. Its funders include Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten, Day [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":566,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/566"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}