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Quantinuum, $5 B quantum computer company, announced its latest hardware milestone: the largest ever GHZ state created with logical qubits with a greater than 98% fidelity. Quantinuum is the world’s largest integrated quantum company ($5B valuation), Quantinuum is leading the development of the most powerful quantum computers and the most advanced quantum software solutions. With ... Read more

Quantinuum, a quantum computing company, was valued at $5 billion after a $300 million equity funding round in January 2024. They are considering a $10 billion IPO. They have the only commercial quantum computer system in the quantum advantage domain.

Google quantum Willow system (105 qubits superconducting chip with 100 ms coherence times) is error mitigation and improved coherence times. They improved coherence times by 5X. There is random sampling improvement but the random sampling is not a useful problem. This shows that quantum computing can clearly beat classical systems for this not useful problem. ... Read more

The Air Force Research Lab has more funding than DARPA (the Defense Advance Research Programs.) AFRL thinks quantum sensing and timing are applying now. Better quantum clocks are here today. We are very close to useful quantum networking. They have made 5-10 kilometer length fiber quantum networks.

Oliver Dial, IBM Fellow, is giving the keynote for Q2B 2024. He describes what is needed for practical quantum computers. IBM achieved the minimum of more accurate answers than classical (regular computers). However, they are not yet to the scale needed for practically useful problems. How much scaling? Things start getting useful with about 100 ... Read more

I, Brian Wang, am attending the quantum technologies conference at the Q2B 2024 conference at the Santa Clara convention. There is a lot of emerging quantum technologies. These are sensors and other devices. There is a list of featured speakers. The Agenda is here. Funding for quantum technologies has grown into the billions.

Jeremy Barton is creating an institute to create basic molecular machines. A primary focus is to create basic motors. We need design tools, motors and more. He previously created an group that combined chemistry, physics, surface science to work on positional chemistry. $150 million was not enough. Here are patents related to mechanosynthesis and direct ... Read more

Up until late 2024, no one has been able to massively increase the amount of compute dedicated to a single model beyond the OpenAI GPT 4 model level. This information is from semianalysis and EIA. Google’s Gemini Ultra, Nvidia Nemotron 340B, and Meta LLAMA 3 405B had similar or slightly more compute than GPT-4, but ... Read more

There is progress to precisely placing silicon atoms to create qubits for quantum computers. The Kane quantum computer is a proposal for a scalable quantum computer proposed by Bruce Kane in 1998 who was then at the University of New South Wales. Often thought of as a hybrid between quantum dot and nuclear magnetic resonance ... Read more

Tesla’s humanoid robot is able to walk up and down hills and mostly maintain balance. Daily walks help clear your mind pic.twitter.com/dUsW58trS6 — Tesla Optimus (@Tesla_Optimus) December 9, 2024

I updated my Tesla Share Price Predictions. Tesla has hit $394 per share. In October, Brian predicted that Tesla will reach $1000 by the end of 2025 and would reach $2500 by the end of 2027. In November, Brian predicted that Tesla will reach $450 by Feb 8, 2025. This is not and was not ... Read more

Neil DeGrasse Tyson compared gender to weight classes in wrestling and suggested sports should be divided by hormone levels. The records for strength, speed and jumping are clear. Men are about 50% stronger, 10% faster and jump 15-20% higher in the same weight class. A women’s lifting record is about 70% of men. Men also ... Read more

Gavin Baker, an xAI investor and hedge fund manager, explains the main problems that OpenAI and the others has was they believed they could not make more than 32000 h100s share the same memory and work coherently using current networking. Elon and then xAI team went to first principles and figured out scaling to 100k chips ... Read more

Tesla has hit $390 per share. In October, I predicted that Tesla will reach $1000 by the end of 2025 and would reach $2500 by the end of 2027. In November, I predicted that Tesla will reach $450 by Feb 8, 2025. This is not and was not financial advice. I wrote on October 23, ... Read more

Researcher Jiang Biao of the Green Chemical Engineering Technology Research and Development Center of the Shanghai Advanced Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and his team developed a nanofiber functional membrane, which successfully extracted kilogram-level uranium from seawater and reduced the cost from US$560 per kilogram It reaches US$150 per kilogram, which is very ... Read more

Intel was the leader with computer chips but lost the elad by failing to move from 10nm to nm. The Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger returned to Intel in 2021, he outlined an ambitious plan to restore Intel’s manufacturing leadership with a goal to achieve five nodes in four years, aiming to catch up with TSMC ... Read more

Tesla is achieving huge success with cars, trucks, megapacks and soon robotaxi and teslabot. All of the products are made by Gigafactories. NO matter how successful robotaxi and teslabot become they will be made by the factories. The Teslabots are and will work in the factories. The unboxed process of building cars like giant legos ... Read more

OpenAI o1 Pro and OpenAI o1 are much better at math. OpenAI o1 Pro mode seems to be using OpenAI o1 but running questions multiple times to get better answers. OpenAI GPT 5 training has not gone smoothly according to Kai-fu Lee. Dr Kai-Fu Lee, founder of 01.AI, co-founder of Microsoft Research Asia, former VP ... Read more

EUV roadmap updated with up to 250wph and 280 wph (wafers per hour) throughput and better overlay (alignment accuracy); probably higher ASPs as productivity improves with each version. Chips will get to 0.5 Nanometer features in 2030-2032. – EUV roadmap updated with up to 250wph and 280 wph throughput and better overlay (alignment accuracy); probably ... Read more

xAI, is expanding the Colossus supercomputer in Memphis, Tennessee from 100,000 to over 1 million GPUs. This expansion, which has already started, involves a substantial financial commitment, potentially in the tens of billions, and includes collaborations with Nvidia, Dell, and Supermicro for GPU supply and server assembly. xAI’s strategy is to lead in the AI ... Read more

SpaceX has completed 24 planes of 13 sats per plane at a 53 deg inclination for the Direct to Cell constellation. Once raised to 360 km, it will be plugged in to service. Direct to Cell is open for business for any telco in the world that wants to eliminate dead zones for text and ... Read more

President Trump has announced that he has selected Jared Isaacman as the next NASA Administrator. Jared was the commander of Inspiration4, a private spaceflight using @SpaceX’s Crew Dragon. Also, earlier this year he completed the first private spacewalk. Jared is the founder of Draken International, a private air force provider, and the founder and CEO ... Read more