Google Launches $150,000 AI Competition to Reduce Quantum Computing Demands

Insider Brief Google Quantum AI launched a $150,000 Kaggle competition to develop smaller, more efficient quantum circuits for calculations related to fusion energy, optimization and chemistry.

Google Quantum AI is launching a competition to use artificial intelligence to shrink the circuits needed for useful quantum computing.

According to Google’s announcement, the competition draws on a method that allows conventional computers to efficiently test a particular class of quantum circuits.

Reducing the Cost of a Calculation A quantum circuit is a sequence of operations used to carry out a calculation.

For a general quantum circuit, a conventional computer may need to track an enormous number of possible states.