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Quantum Startup Ships First Commercial Cloud Qubit Service

The service targets financial and pharmaceutical workloads, promising quantum advantage on a subscription basis.

SAN FRANCISCO — A quantum computing startup began shipping its first commercial cloud qubit service on Tuesday, making error-corrected quantum processors available to financial and pharmaceutical customers on a subscription basis.

Early benchmarks show the service outperforming classical simulation on optimization workloads, though researchers caution that broad quantum advantage remains workload-specific.

The move is the latest sign that quantum hardware is transitioning from laboratory experiments to mainstream infrastructure procurement.

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