Quantum’s Expansion For Public Use, As Stocks Rally Back Up
It seems like the year of quantum has finally started.
According to the U.N. General Assembly, 2025 is supposed to be the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology.
Falling stocks and rushed press statements have painted a different story. After NVIDIA CEO Jenson Huang remarks on the future on quantum computing and, how he thought, it would be closer to 20 years before at-scale quantum computers would be commercially feasible.
Compared to the sub-10 years promised by the giants in the quantum computing world right now, the negative prediction by NVIDIA shocked quantum investors.
Of course, quantum companies didn’t just let their stock price plummet to the ground — they pushed out news and press statements.
They did anything they could to shift back investor sentiment towards quantum computing. And it worked.
Stocks for D-Wave, Rigetti, and IonQ (the three major quantum computing startups) have gone back up after dipping last week.
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Microsoft announced their Quantum Ready Program. While this program, of course, is intended to bring businesses to use Microsoft’s quantum computers (whenever they’re ready), it also promoted confidence in the field of quantum computing.
Just as NVIDIA’s words carry weight in tech, so does Microsoft’s words.
The quantum startups are doing their part to bring quantum computing into the minds of investors as well.
D-Wave has been especially vocal, with their CEO directly calling out Jensen on his statements.
D-Wave also announced a partnership with Carasoft today. This partnership is aimed to bring quantum computing to the public sector and the government.
The year of quantum computing, thanks to quantum companies, is ready to start.
I’m looking forward to the journey.
Links:
- https://www.investors.com/news/technology/quantum-computing-stocks-quantum-stocks-dwave-carahsoft/
