Ilyas Khan
Founder & CPO, Quantinuum. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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He founded Cambridge Quantum Computing in 2014, which merged with Honeywell Quantum Solutions in 2021 to form Quantinuum. He served as the inaugural chairman of The Stephen Hawking Foundation and previously rescued English football club Accrington Stanley from bankruptcy.
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15statements
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Everything Ilyas Khan said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
D-Wave's pioneering machine is not a true quantum computer
“I'm one of those that, that admire the pioneering work that D-Wave have done, although I don't think their machine is a true quantum computer.”
China made quantum computing its top national priority with unlimited budget
“As far as the Chinese were concerned, quantum computing is their number one priority. It's not water. It's not population controlled. It's not food. It is quantum computing. There is no budget. Which means there's no limit to the budget. It means not that ther…”
Quantum computing will impact society more than the Industrial Revolution
“If the promise that Feynman held forth in the early eighties is even remotely true, then the impact of quantum computing on our lives as we sit around this table will be greater, for example, than that That our forefathers during the industrial revolution had …”
The greatest fortunes in quantum computing will be made in software
“Now, I'm not on the hardware side. My, I, I'm on a different side of the business, which I find much more fascinating and where I think the great fortunes are going to be made.”
Quantum computing will render standard public key encryption obsolete
“The current state of affairs is that when we communicate, more often than not, the public key encryption that we use is based on the inability of computers to find factors for large numbers. And so breaking or creating codes will no longer be possible using th…”
A 50-qubit quantum computer outpowers any existing classical supercomputer
“And a quantum computer, even with a modest number of qubits, and the analogy that gets banded around by everybody who's been on the D-Wave website, or who's read all these articles, Is that a Quantum computer with 40 or 50 entangled qubits would be more powerf…”
Quantum computing will unlock rapid DNA analysis and custom designer drugs
“We're not there yet, by the way, but when we get there, these machines will have an amazing capacity to solve these types of problems. One of the applications from that would be the quick and careful analysis of our DNA, and the creation of designer drugs.”
Corporate quantum computing research surpassed academic work around 2018
“The tipping point occurred late last year when the work being done by corporate entities, which have a profit motive, became more important than the work that was being done by academia.”
Precision engineering enables physical quantum computing beyond academic theory
“The reason why it's no longer academic is that the advances in engineering, the same reason why we have the Large Hadron Collider, the same reason we have well, there's so many advances in engineering, of course, now, because the, I think the gate fidelity of …”
Building quantum computing hardware is not a game for early-stage startups
“First of all, I think that the big hardware game is absolutely not startup. The people that have got the resources to be able to attack this problem are, by definition, the big guys.”
Microsoft hires Fields Medalists over traditional coders for topological quantum computing
“So if you look at Microsoft, this topological Cubit, you know, the program that they're doing, they've got Fields Medal winners taken away from the blackboards. Not people who code.”
Quantum software developers will work closely with hardware in coming years
“I can see that software expertise, people that are just magnificent and equipped to create the sorts of products that we've been talking about, they will work more closely with initially the hardware than has been the case for a very long time.”
Unifying quantum mechanics and relativity is humanity's greatest prize
“I cannot think of a greater prize for humanity than making progress in unifying these approaches, and thereby understanding the essential question that we've always asked, which is, how did it all happen?”
Quantum computers will solve optimization problems thousands of times faster
“For example, the thousands of years that it might take current computers to solve a certain optimization problem could be done very quickly.”
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Ilyas's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
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 a16zLEDGER | Founder & CPO, Quantinuum | 1 | 15 | 33% 1/3 | full record on the a16z Podcast → |