US Launches $215 Million Race to Build an Error-Corrected Quantum Computer by 2028

Quantum computers could eventually solve scientific problems beyond the reach of conventional supercomputers, but today’s machines are too error-prone for practical work.

The US Department of Energy has now launched a $215 million competition challenging teams to build a scientifically useful, fault-tolerant quantum computer by 2028.

But despite significant progress, the qubits these machines rely on remain fragile and prone to errors that can quickly derail calculations.

Now, the Department of Energy hopes to accelerate the advent of fault-tolerant quantum computers with the Quantum Genesis Q Competition.

“We want to be able to see meaningful scientific calculations done on these quantum computers.”