Quantum Computing 2025 Update

Quantum computing developments over the past 12 months, including Google Willow, IBM Majorana 1, and innovations at IBM, PsiQuantum and Atom Computing

Last year’s Quantum Computing 2023 Update is here:
   • Quantum Computing 2024 Update  

And all of my quantum computing updates are in this playlist:    • Quantum Computing Updates  

And also listed on this page: https://explainingcomputers.com/quant...

REFERENCES (in order of appearance):

INTRO

International Year of Quantum: https://quantum2025.org/

Quantum Insider 2024 Annual Report:
https://thequantuminsider.com/2025/01...

NSIT “Transition to Post-Quantum Cryptography Standards”: https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/ir/...

Quantinum selected for NVIDIA research center: https://www.quantinuum.com/press-rele...

Xanadu error-resistant photonic qubit: https://www.xanadu.ai/press/xanadu-un...

D-Wave Quantum Supremacy 2025: https://www.dwavequantum.com/company/...

GOOGLE WILLOW

Google Willow Announcement: https://blog.google/technology/resear...

Google Quantum AI: https://quantumai.google/lab

Google quantum error correction paper in Nature: https://www.nature.com/articles/s4158...

Google “Making quantum error correction work”: https://research.google/blog/making-q...

MICROSOFT MAJORANA 1

Microsoft unveils Majorana 1: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blo...

Microsoft’s Majorana 1 chip: https://news.microsoft.com/source/fea...

DARPA selects two utility scale approaches for evaluation: https://www.darpa.mil/news/2025/quant...

PSIQUANTUM OMEGA

PsiQuantum: https://www.psiquantum.com/

PsiQuantum to build utility scale quantum computer:
https://www.businesswire.com/news/hom...

PsiQuantum Announces Omega:
https://www.psiquantum.com/news-impor...

PsiQuantum “A fast path to useful, error-corrected quantum computing”:
https://www.psiquantum.com/blueprint

MICROSOFT & ATOM COMPUTING

Microsft & Atom Computing to offer commercial machine: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blo...

Atom Computing: https://atom-computing.com/

Atom Computing selected by DARPA: https://atom-computing.com/atom-compu...

Microsoft & Atom Computing research paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2411.11822

Microsoft Qubit Virtualization: https://quantum.microsoft.com/en-us/s...

Microsoft Quantum Compute Platform:
https://quantum.microsoft.com/en-us/s...

IBM STARLING & QUANTUM ROADMAP

IBM Quantum: https://www.ibm.com/quantum

IBM “How IBM will build the world’s first large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computer”: https://www.ibm.com/quantum/blog/larg...

IBM bivariate bicycle research paper: https://www.arxiv.org/pdf/2506.03094

IBM belief propagation research paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.01779

ENDING

IBM “Modelling realistic chemistry”: https://www.ibm.com/quantum/case-stud...

Quantum Circuits “Drug Discovery Accelerated”: https://quantumcircuits.com/resources...

Quantinuum Inquanto:
https://www.quantinuum.com/products-s...

Forbes on quantum computing in logistics: https://www.forbes.com/councils/forbe...

D-Wave quantum blockchain:
https://www.dwavequantum.com/company/...

IonQ quantum cloud: https://ionq.com/quantum-cloud

D-Wave Systems cloud platform: https://www.dwavequantum.com/solution...

Amazon Bracket: https://aws.amazon.com/braket/


Chapters:
00:00 Titles & Intro
02:25 Google Willow
05:53 Microsoft Majorana 1
07:47 PsiQuantum Omega
09:48 Microsoft & Atom Computing
12:29 Towards IBM Quantum Starling
15:37 Quantum Application

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