Inside IBM’s race to achieve quantum advantage

Google’s Willow chip may be grabbing headlines, but IBM’s quantum chief Jay Gambetta sees a different path to quantum computing.

It’s an unscientific fact that nine out of every 10 conversations about tech in the past year have been about AI. But the 10th has been about quantum computing. In a period of just over a year, the perennial technology of the future has become suddenly real—with major breakthroughs in computing hardware and software, significant public and private investments, and rising stock prices for companies in the burgeoning quantum ecosystem.