In October 2019, Google announced that it had reached quantum supremacy — the company’s quantum processor was able to perform a calculation in minutes that would take today’s classical computers 10,000 years to complete.
With Amazon recently announcing that it will launch its own version of quantum computing-as-a-service, it joins Google, IBM, and Microsoft in the race to develop the first fully functioning and commercially viable quantum computer. These tech giants are competing against nation states, with the U.S. and China each dedicating significant federal funding toward this goal.