Insider Brief China’s Jiuzhang 4.0 photonic quantum computer was among 20 projects honored with the 2026 World Internet Conference Leading Science and Technology Awards.
Researchers claim a substantial speed advantage over classical computers, but boson sampling benchmarks have faced challenges and the task has no known commercial use.
/CMG China’s Jiuzhang 4.0 photonic quantum computer has won one of the World Internet Conference’s top science prizes.
Other types of quantum computers hold information in superconducting circuits or trapped atoms.
Boson sampling has no known commercial use, but, rather serves as a test of whether a quantum device can outpace classical machines.