{"id":73801,"date":"2017-11-15T22:07:18","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T06:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/ibm-makes-20-qubit-quantum-computing-machine-available-as-a-cloud-service"},"modified":"2017-11-15T22:07:18","modified_gmt":"2017-11-16T06:07:18","slug":"ibm-makes-20-qubit-quantum-computing-machine-available-as-a-cloud-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/ibm-makes-20-qubit-quantum-computing-machine-available-as-a-cloud-service","title":{"rendered":"IBM makes 20 qubit quantum computing machine available as a cloud service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ibm-makes-20-qubit-quantum-computing-machine-available-as-a-cloud-service.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>IBM has been offering <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2016\/05\/03\/ibm-brings-experimental-quantum-computing-to-the-cloud\/\" rel=\"noopener\">quantum computing as a cloud service since last year<\/a> when it came out with a 5 qubit version of the advanced computers. Today, the company announced that it\u2019s releasing 20-qubit quantum computers, quite a leap in just 18 months. A qubit is a single unit of quantum information.<\/p>\n<p>The company also announced that IBM researchers had successfully built a 50 qubit prototype, which is the next milestone for quantum computing, but it\u2019s unclear when we will see this commercially available.<\/p>\n<p>While the earliest versions of IBM\u2019s quantum computers were offered for free to build a community of users, and help educate people on programming and using these machines, today\u2019s announcement is the first commercial offering. It will be available by the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2017\/11\/10\/ibm-passes-major-milestone-with-20-and-50-qubit-quantum-computers-as-a-service\/\">https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2017\/11\/10\/ibm-passes-major-milestone...a-service\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IBM has been offering quantum computing as a cloud service since last year when it came out with a 5 qubit version of the advanced computers. Today, the company announced that it\u2019s releasing 20-qubit quantum computers, quite a leap in just 18 months. A qubit is a single unit of quantum information. The company also [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73801","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}