Quantum Computing 2025: Breakthroughs from Google, IBM, and More 🚀

Quantum computing developments over the past 12 months, including Google Willow, IBM Majorana 1, and innovations at IBM, PsiQuantum and Atom Computing

Last year’s Quantum Computing 2023 Update is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIJuyb5DWUw

And all of my quantum computing updates are in this playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2m2YvnrOYxIZ5ThTsTov6h2YSGzFHYul

And also listed on this page: https://explainingcomputers.com/quantum_videos.html

REFERENCES (in order of appearance):

INTRO

International Year of Quantum: https://quantum2025.org/

Quantum Insider 2024 Annual Report:
https://thequantuminsider.com/2025/01/15/tqi-2024-annual-report-quantum-industry-faces-challenges-as-transformative-potential-commercialization-beckon/

NSIT “Transition to Post-Quantum Cryptography Standards”: https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/ir/2024/NIST.IR.8547.ipd.pdf

Quantinum selected for NVIDIA research center: https://www.quantinuum.com/press-releases/quantinuum-selected-as-a-founding-collaborator-for-nvidia-accelerated-quantum-research-center

Xanadu error-resistant photonic qubit: https://www.xanadu.ai/press/xanadu-unveils-first-on-chip-error-resistant-photonic-qubit

D-Wave Quantum Supremacy 2025: https://www.dwavequantum.com/company/newsroom/press-release/beyond-classical-d-wave-first-to-demonstrate-quantum-supremacy-on-useful-real-world-problem/

GOOGLE WILLOW

Google Willow Announcement: https://blog.google/technology/research/google-willow-quantum-chip/

Google Quantum AI: https://quantumai.google/lab

Google quantum error correction paper in Nature: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08449-y

Google “Making quantum error correction work”: https://research.google/blog/making-quantum-error-correction-work/

MICROSOFT MAJORANA 1

Microsoft unveils Majorana 1: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/quantum/2025/02/19/microsoft-unveils-majorana-1-the-worlds-first-quantum-processor-powered-by-topological-qubits/

Microsoft’s Majorana 1 chip: https://news.microsoft.com/source/features/innovation/microsofts-majorana-1-chip-carves-new-path-for-quantum-computing/

DARPA selects two utility scale approaches for evaluation: https://www.darpa.mil/news/2025/quantum-computing-approaches

PSIQUANTUM OMEGA

PsiQuantum: https://www.psiquantum.com/

PsiQuantum to build utility scale quantum computer:
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240429080449/en/PsiQuantum-to-Build-Worlds-First-Utility-Scale-Fault-Tolerant-Quantum-Computer-in-Australia

PsiQuantum Announces Omega:
https://www.psiquantum.com/news-import/omega

PsiQuantum “A fast path to useful, error-corrected quantum computing”:
https://www.psiquantum.com/blueprint

MICROSOFT & ATOM COMPUTING

Microsft & Atom Computing to offer commercial machine: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/quantum/2024/11/19/microsoft-and-atom-computing-offer-a-commercial-quantum-machine-with-the-largest-number-of-entangled-logical-qubits-on-record/

Atom Computing: https://atom-computing.com/

Atom Computing selected by DARPA: https://atom-computing.com/atom-computing-selected-by-darpa-to-explore-near-term-utility-scale-quantum-computing-with-neutral-atoms/

Microsoft & Atom Computing research paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2411.11822

Microsoft Qubit Virtualization: https://quantum.microsoft.com/en-us/solutions/qubit-virtualization

Microsoft Quantum Compute Platform:
https://quantum.microsoft.com/en-us/solutions/microsoft-quantum-compute-platform

IBM STARLING & QUANTUM ROADMAP

IBM Quantum: https://www.ibm.com/quantum

IBM “How IBM will build the world’s first large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computer”: https://www.ibm.com/quantum/blog/large-scale-ftqc

IBM bivariate bicycle research paper: https://www.arxiv.org/pdf/2506.03094

IBM belief propagation research paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.01779

ENDING

IBM “Modelling realistic chemistry”: https://www.ibm.com/quantum/case-studies/modeling-realistic-chemistry

Quantum Circuits “Drug Discovery Accelerated”: https://quantumcircuits.com/resources/drug-discovery-accelerated-by-quantum-system/

Quantinuum Inquanto:
https://www.quantinuum.com/products-solutions/inquanto

Forbes on quantum computing in logistics: https://www.forbes.com/councils/forbesbusinessdevelopmentcouncil/2025/01/23/how-quantum-computing-will-transform-logistics/

D-Wave quantum blockchain:
https://www.dwavequantum.com/company/newsroom/press-release/d-wave-introduces-quantum-blockchain-architecture-featuring-enhanced-security-and-efficiency-over-classical-computing/

IonQ quantum cloud: https://ionq.com/quantum-cloud

D-Wave Systems cloud platform: https://www.dwavequantum.com/solutions-and-products/cloud-platform/

Amazon Bracket: https://aws.amazon.com/braket/


Chapters:
00:00 Titles & Intro
02:25 Google Willow
05:53 Microsoft Majorana 1
07:47 PsiQuantum Omega
09:48 Microsoft & Atom Computing
12:29 Towards IBM Quantum Starling
15:37 Quantum Application

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