Quantum + AI Together - Saturday, October 26, 2024: Commentary with Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers
Quantum + AI Together - Saturday, October 26, 2024: Commentary with Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers
Commentary and a selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Quantum.
Today’s Brief Commentary
I’m speaking on Tuesday, October 29, at the Inside Quantum Technology Quantum+AI conference in New York City. The title is “Quantum AI: A Quantum Computing Industry Perspective.”
On the occasion of this event, today’s edition of the newsletter focuses on vendors working at the intersection of quantum and AI. I don’t claim this list is exhaustive by vendor nor by everything they may each be doing in the field. My intention is to give you an idea of the range of work being done so you can pursue any line of inquiry that interests you.
Some of the links go back to early 2023 if I could not find anything newer in a reasonable amount of time. For the most part, I’ve limited the collection to one link per vendor unless several collaborated on an offering.
The list is long, but that’s a good thing, right?
Packt is running a special sale until November 1 on my quantum computing book Dancing with Qubits, Second Edition.
The book has twenty 5-star ratings, and the paperback will be 20% off between now and the end of the month.
General News, Articles, and Analyses
Q-CTRL | Bringing AI to quantum - new automation and optimization capabilities to help the research community move faster
(Friday, March 3, 2023) “Research in quantum computing and sensing is held back by hardware instability and slow manual processes for tuneup and calibration. Boulder Opal now delivers powerful AI agents to replace onerous tasks with fully automated processes at scale.”
Infleqtion, UChicago, and MIT Unite to Develop Breakthrough Cancer Solutions with AI and Quantum Algorithms
(Wednesday, September 13, 2023) “Infleqtion, the world's quantum information company, today announced that it had been awarded funding from Wellcome Leap's Quantum for Bio (Q4Bio) program with a team of renowned researchers and medical doctors at the University of Chicago (UChicago) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). This collaborative effort aims to transform cancer care by harnessing the power of artificial intelligence (AI) and quantum algorithms to drive personalized diagnostics and treatments. Founded by the Wellcome Trust in 2020, Wellcome Leap is a U.S. non-profit that builds and executes bold, unconventional programs designed to increase the number and speed of breakthroughs in human health”
Xanadu and the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) partner to advance quantum computing technologies
(Wednesday, September 13, 2023) “Xanadu (xanadu.ai), a world leader in photonic quantum computing, announced today a partnership with the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), a top South Korean government-funded research institution. The goal of this partnership is to advance fundamental research in quantum machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) for emerging fault-tolerant quantum computers.”
PASQAL Joins Forces with Mila to Enhance Generative Modeling in Quantum AI
(Wednesday, January 10, 2024) “Mila is proud to welcome PASQAL, a global leader in neutral atom quantum computing, in its partners community. This collaboration will be a first exploratory step towards enhancing generative modeling with quantum computing benchmarking and coupling with tensor networks.”
Running Machine Learning Algorithms on IonQ Computers
https://ionq.com/resources/machine-learning-algorithms-on-ionq-computers
Author: Sonika Johri
(Thursday, January 18, 2024) “At IonQ, our mission is to build the world’s most powerful quantum computers to solve the world's most complex problems. Artificial intelligence is one such problem, and similarly to quantum computing, it hasn’t been solved yet but is likely to completely change our world. In this context, I’m excited to share recent work that significantly advances this goal by overcoming a previously insurmountable hurdle in the field of quantum machine learning (QML).”
Terra Quantum expands into Asian Markets with a Landmark Collaboration with POSCO Holdings to improve steel production efficiency with Quantum AI
(Tuesday, February 20, 2024) “Utilizing deep tech quantum technologies in optimizing blast furnace operations, the initiative targets key areas such as Reducing Agent Rate (RAR) optimization where emissions and costs can be significantly reduced. The project will aim to produce better results than already advanced AI solutions developed by POSCO through utilizing Hybrid Quantum Neural Networks: a combination of classical state of the art AI with quantum layers.”
IBM | Optimize quantum circuits with AI-powered transpiler passes
https://www.ibm.com/quantum/blog/ai-transpiler-passes
Authors: David Kremer; Juan Cruz-Benito; Ismael Faro; and Robert Davis
(Tuesday, May 28, 2024) “The Qiskit Transpiler Service beta release is now available on the IBM Quantum Premium Plan, providing users with AI and IBM cloud resources to speed up transpilation tasks.”
Aliro | Synergies Between Quantum Networks and AI
https://www.aliroquantum.com/blog/synergies-between-advanced-secure-networks-and-ai
(Wednesday, August 21, 2024) “Classical artificial intelligence (AI), quantum AI, quantum computing, and entanglement-based networks each represent new frontiers in technology. Combining classical AI, quantum AI, quantum computing, and entanglement-based networks could lead to new technologies, and may one day revolutionize areas of computing and network communications. In this article, we’ll explore just a couple of those possibilities.”
D-Wave Announces Roadmap To Extend Leap Quantum Cloud Service For AI/ML
(Thursday, August 29, 2024) “The roadmap is intended to help customers address a variety of AI/ML workloads including pre-training optimization, more accurate and efficient model training, and opening new AI business use cases that require the integration of AI and business optimization, such as quantum supply chain optimization to support AI-predicted product demand requirements.”
Microsoft and Quantinuum create 12 logical qubits and demonstrate a hybrid, end-to-end chemistry simulation
Author: Krysta Svore
(Wednesday, September 4, 2024) “Microsoft and Quantinuum applied Azure Quantum’s qubit-virtualization system to Quantinuum’s H2 trapped-ion quantum computer to create 12 highly reliable logical qubits. Additionally, the teams demonstrated the emerging capabilities of reliable quantum computing by using two logical qubits, integrated with an AI model and cloud high-performance computing (HPC), to accurately estimate the ground state energy of the active space of an important catalytic intermediate. These achievements demonstrate continued progress toward scientific quantum advantage, a milestone that will be reached when a hybrid quantum-classical supercomputer can solve scientific problems too complex for classical computers alone.”
Quantinuum Unveils First Contribution Toward Responsible AI — Uniting Power of Its Quantum Processors With Experimental Work on Integrating Classical, Quantum Computing
Author: Matt Swayne
(Wednesday, September 18, 2024) “A team of Quantinuum researchers has notched further progress in the eventual use of quantum artificial intelligence (AI), reporting the first implementation of scalable quantum natural language processing (QNLP). Their model, called QDisCoCirc, integrates quantum computing with AI to tackle text-based tasks such as question answering, according to a research paper posted on the pre-print server ArXiv.”
QC Ware | QCLearn: Unlocking New Horizons in Data Science with Quantum Innovation.
https://www.qcware.com/qclearn
“Harnessing the power of machine learning libraries like scikit-learn and frameworks such as PyTorch and JAX, QCLEARN offers both quantum and quantum-inspired functionalities. These advanced features run on powerful classical hardware, alongside the latest quantum hardware from providers like IonQ, OQC, QuEra, and Rigetti available through AmazonBraket, as well as quantum hardware from IBM.”
Related Articles and Papers
Zapata AI and IonQ Collaborate to Advance Generative AI Research
(Tuesday, August 15, 2023) “Zapata AI, a software company building solutions to enterprises’ most computationally complex problems, today announced it has entered a strategic alliance with IonQ (NYSE: IONQ), an industry leader in quantum computing hardware and commercial quantum application development. Building on years of previous work together, the teams will benchmark generative AI techniques on quantum hardware to uncover new potential advantages of quantum computing that could help solve complex real-world business problems.”