Amazon is getting into the quantum computing game, which Microsoft, IBM, and Google are already racing in
Peter Chapman, former director of engineering for Amazon Prime who became IonQ's CEO"It is a step for them into the quantum industry as a whole," Rigetti COO Taryn Naidu told Business Insider. "There's obviously a lot of work from companies like ourselves. They're really focusing on bringing quantum hardware to the user base to make sure it's ready for prime time. It's the first step of Amazon being that conduit.
"With quantum engineering starting to make more meaningful progress, customers are asking for ways to experiment with quantum computers and explore the technology's potential," Charlie Bell, senior vice president of utility computing services at AWS, said in a statement. "We believe that quantum computing will be a cloud-first technology and that the cloud will be the main way customers access the hardware.
Experts say that in quantum computing, cloud can be a powerful tool to allow customers to use it because they can write quantum computing code that can run anywhere they want. Previously,Now in quantum computing, The three partners D-Wave, IonQ, and Rigetti are all taking completely different approaches, and with Braket, customers have access to them all.
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