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SandboxAQ Gets $300 million more Funding

Is SandboxAQ just a B2B company or something else as well?

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Michael Spencer
Dec 20, 2024
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Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt Is Working On A Secret Military Drone Project

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In a period where Google has unveiled a new chip called Willow coinciding with Gemini 2’s triumphant launch with many great Generative AI features, Google spin out SandboxAQ got important new funding. Meanwhile Eric Schmidt is on a PR splurge about War and his drone company in Estonia.

So what do China hawks have to do with Sandbox AQ? Earlier this month China unveiled a 504-Qubit Superconducting Chip. One of its most advanced quantum computer, the “Tianyan-504,” featuring a 504-qubit chip named “Xiaohong,” developed in partnership with the Chinese Academy of Sciences and QuantumCTek.

The Zuchongzhi 3.0 processor. Photo: CCTV

So what’s real and what’s not? In September, Microsoft and Atom Computing announced that they set a record for the largest number of entangled logical qubits. Colorado-based Quantinuum has set a new record in quantum computing by successfully entangling 50 logical qubits.

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