Google To Build Quantum Information Processors 72
An anonymous reader writes The Google Quantum AI Team has announced that they're bringing in a team from the University of California at Santa Barbara to build quantum information processors within the company. "With an integrated hardware group the Quantum AI team will now be able to implement and test new designs for quantum optimization and inference processors based on recent theoretical insights as well as our learnings from the D-Wave quantum annealing architecture." Google will continue to work with D-Wave, but the UC Santa Barbara group brings its own areas of expertise with superconducting qubit arrays.
Re:Proper motivation (Score:5, Interesting)
Their motivation, in this area and all of the other scattered stuff, like cars and drone delivery and rocket prizes and stuff is called, "R&D."
They aren't worried about foreseeable payback.
You can bet your ass they will stumble across some neat shit.
All that advertising stuff has given them deep pockets.
Bill Gates buys art and tries to fix hunger and poverty with his billions.
Google is more into implementing theoretical junk to see if there is something there or if there's something nearby.