AI tie-in accelerates quantum usefulness, early adopters say

The Quantum Tech World conference showcases this ecosystem, she says. According to conference organizers, more than 1,300 people attended this year, and there were more than one hundred sponsors. Among them were multiple quantum computer makers, including Quantum Computing Inc., a maker of room-temperature photonic computers, which ran a real-time demo of a fraud detection algorithm that beat the best classical method and scales linearly with data set size instead of quadratically. There were also software companies, consulting firms, and other specialized providers.

“Our booth has been packed,” says Jason Silbergleit, head of Americas at Classiq, an orchestration software company that provides an abstraction layer that makes it easier for non-scientists to build quantum applications. “More and more users want to take advantage of the platform. Even in the past six months—three months—the amount of acceleration and interest is growing.”

“We’re shifting from very fundamental and exploratory, building one-off kinds of systems and devices, to making things that are scalable,” says Celia Merzbacher, executive director at the Quantum Economic Development Consortium. “And within a timeframe that private investors and end users are willing to start to engage.”