This week our CEO @NiccoloDeMasi joined His Majesty The King's AI Summit at Dumfries House in Scotland, contributing to discussions with leaders at the forefront of AI chips, advanced technology, and scientific research. Niccolo shared that the quantum processing unit (QPU) will sit alongside the graphics processing unit (GPU) in shaping what computing does for the economy and society. Quantum technologies will tackle problems that are not economically viable on classical machines and keep people in charge of the questions being asked. Niccolo also set out what this means in practice. Work that classical machines cannot take on will create new jobs and new growth, in materials science, pharmaceuticals and financial services thanks to quantum systems. On the problems they are built for, quantum computers can reach an answer using a fraction of the energy a classical supercomputer would need. In a world where grid capacity is becoming the limit on what can be computed, developing these solutions has never been more important." Thank you to His Majesty The King and @KingsFdn for convening the discussion.

$IONQ Chairman and CEO @NiccoloDeMasi discusses aspirations of being the first 10-figure revenue quantum company: "We posted an $80 million quarter in Q2 from a revenue perspective... about double the revenue of every other public company in our sector combined." "We said we'll do $450 to $460 million this year. We were the first quantum company in the world to reach seven figures of revenue, eight figures of revenue, nine figures of revenue." "Of course, my aspiration is to be the first to 10 figures of revenue." "When you're doing hundreds of millions of dollars of revenue, I think we can all agree it's a business that's here and now."

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