Alibaba shuts down quantum lab, donates it to university

China's cloud and e-commerce giant Alibaba has shut down its quantum computing laboratory and laid off a number of researchers in what appears to be a bid to cut costs. The move comes just weeks after the company cancelled the planned IPO of its cloud division. Alibaba, one of the largest companies in China, has effectively …

[Bebu]

Probably a good thing...

Pretty horrifying to contemplate AI/ML running on Quantum Computers with potentially millions of Qubits.

Hopefully I will be ex-Terra (likely sub-Terra) before then.

Universities don't typicallly have the resources/funding of megatechs like Alibaba by a least several orders of magnitude which should retard development. Academic types are more likely to use any QC resources they develop to answer much more interesting questions.

I always assumed "Alibaba" was from the Arabian folktale "Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves" which is probably fair warning. The woodcutter goes on to set up an online business with his forty new associates?

[Doctor Syntax]

A new bandwagon to chase.