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Alphabet at X, Google parent company Alphabet’s second, secretive quantum computing team, plans to launch a set of APIs called Floq that’ll allow developers to use tensor processing units (TPUs) to simulate quantum computing workloads. The announcement, which was made during a February that garnered little mainstream attention, hints at the potential for hardware originally designed for AI applications to extend into the quantum realm.
Experts believe that quantum computing, which at a high level entails the use of quantum-mechanical phenomena like superposition and entanglement to perform computation, could one day accelerate AI workloads compared with classical computers. Scientific discoveries arising from the field could transform energy storage, chemical
