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March 1, 2021

Why now is the right time to invest in European quantum computing

Small companies still have a chance to make it big in the nascent sector of quantum computing as investor money starts pouring in.


Maija Palmer

5 min read

John Martinis, the lead scientist who built Google’s first computer to achieve quantum supremacy, recently left the tech giant to join Silicon Quantum Computing, a 2017-founded startup based in Sydney.

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