Research scientist Marissa Giustina installs a 72-qubit Bristlecone chip at Google’s Quantum AI Lab in Santa Barbara, California. Chinese internet giants Baidu, Alibaba Group Holding and Tencent Holdings are looking to catch up in the field of quantum computing with their own research initiatives. Photo: Google. Research scientist Marissa Giustina installs a 72-qubit Bristlecone chip at Google’s Quantum AI Lab in Santa Barbara, California. Chinese internet giants Baidu, Alibaba Group Holding and Tencent Holdings are looking to catch up in the field of quantum computing with their own research initiatives. Photo: Google.
Research scientist Marissa Giustina installs a 72-qubit Bristlecone chip at Google’s Quantum AI Lab in Santa Barbara, California. Chinese internet giants Baidu, Alibaba Group Holding and Tencent Holdings are looking to catch up in the field of quantum computing with their own research initiatives. Photo: Google.
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China’s race for the mother of all supercomputers just got more crowded

Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent jockey for position in the development of quantum computing, which delivers a faster and more efficient approach to processing information than today’s fastest computers

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Zen Soo
Zen Soo

Updated: 9:02am, 12 Mar, 2018

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Research scientist Marissa Giustina installs a 72-qubit Bristlecone chip at Google’s Quantum AI Lab in Santa Barbara, California. Chinese internet giants Baidu, Alibaba Group Holding and Tencent Holdings are looking to catch up in the field of quantum computing with their own research initiatives. Photo: Google. Research scientist Marissa Giustina installs a 72-qubit Bristlecone chip at Google’s Quantum AI Lab in Santa Barbara, California. Chinese internet giants Baidu, Alibaba Group Holding and Tencent Holdings are looking to catch up in the field of quantum computing with their own research initiatives. Photo: Google.
Research scientist Marissa Giustina installs a 72-qubit Bristlecone chip at Google’s Quantum AI Lab in Santa Barbara, California. Chinese internet giants Baidu, Alibaba Group Holding and Tencent Holdings are looking to catch up in the field of quantum computing with their own research initiatives. Photo: Google.
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