ExplainingComputers (1.12M subscribers)
July 27, 2025
Video length: 17m 05s
Quantum computing developments over the past 12 months, including Google Willow, IBM Majorana 1, and innovations at IBM, PsiQuantum and Atom Computing
REFERENCES (in order of appearance):
INTRO
International Year of Quantum: https://quantum2025.org/
Quantum Insider 2024 Annual Report: https://thequantuminsider.com/2025/01...
NSIT “Transition to Post-Quantum Cryptography Standards”: https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/ir/...
Quantinum selected for NVIDIA research center: https://www.quantinuum.com/press-rele...
Xanadu error-resistant photonic qubit: https://www.xanadu.ai/press/xanadu-un...
D-Wave Quantum Supremacy 2025: https://www.dwavequantum.com/company/...
GOOGLE WILLOW
Google Willow Announcement: https://blog.google/technology/resear...
Google Quantum AI: https://quantumai.google/lab
Google quantum error correction paper in Nature: https://www.nature.com/articles/s4158...
Google “Making quantum error correction work”: https://research.google/blog/making-q...
MICROSOFT MAJORANA 1
Microsoft unveils Majorana 1: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blo...
Microsoft’s Majorana 1 chip: https://news.microsoft.com/source/fea...
DARPA selects two utility scale approaches for evaluation: https://www.darpa.mil/news/2025/quant...
PSIQUANTUM OMEGA
PsiQuantum: https://www.psiquantum.com/
PsiQuantum to build utility scale quantum computer: https://www.businesswire.com/news/hom...
PsiQuantum Announces Omega: https://www.psiquantum.com/news-impor...
PsiQuantum “A fast path to useful, error-corrected quantum computing”: https://www.psiquantum.com/blueprint
MICROSOFT & ATOM COMPUTING
Microsft & Atom Computing to offer commercial machine: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blo...
Atom Computing: https://atom-computing.com/
Atom Computing selected by DARPA: https://atom-computing.com/atom-compu...
Microsoft & Atom Computing research paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2411.11822
Microsoft Qubit Virtualization: https://quantum.microsoft.com/en-us/s...
Microsoft Quantum Compute Platform: https://quantum.microsoft.com/en-us/s...
IBM STARLING & QUANTUM ROADMAP
IBM Quantum: https://www.ibm.com/quantum
IBM “How IBM will build the world’s first large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computer”: https://www.ibm.com/quantum/blog/larg...
IBM bivariate bicycle research paper: https://www.arxiv.org/pdf/2506.03094
IBM belief propagation research paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.01779
ENDING
IBM “Modelling realistic chemistry”: https://www.ibm.com/quantum/case-stud...
Quantum Circuits “Drug Discovery Accelerated”: https://quantumcircuits.com/resources...
Quantinuum Inquanto: https://www.quantinuum.com/products-s...
Forbes on quantum computing in logistics: https://www.forbes.com/councils/forbe...
D-Wave quantum blockchain: https://www.dwavequantum.com/company/...
IonQ quantum cloud: https://ionq.com/quantum-cloud
D-Wave Systems cloud platform: https://www.dwavequantum.com/solution...
Amazon Bracket: https://aws.amazon.com/braket/
00:00 Titles & Intro
02:25 Google Willow
05:53 Microsoft Majorana 1
07:47 PsiQuantum Omega
09:48 Microsoft & Atom Computing
12:29 Towards IBM Quantum Starling
15:37 Quantum Application
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Posted Monday 28 July 2025 at 5:32 am AEST (my time).
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