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SOURCERY Prediction Open · timeframe Sep 2030
Shadbolt: One-million-qubit quantum computer will outperform all global conventional compute
“A single million qubit quantum computer would outperform The net total of conventional computing on the entire planet. So you take all of the supercomputers on the planet, you take every AWS system, every Azure system, you add them all together, and we trash t…”
Pete Shadbolt Sep 10, 2025 ▶ 29:25 Raising $2 Billion to Become the SpaceX of Quantum | PsiQuantum's Pete Shadbolt · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
SOURCERY Assertion Not checkable as stated
Shadbolt: Useful quantum computing requires roughly one million qubits
“The general consensus is that you need more like a million qubits to do anything commercially impactful with a quantum computer.”
Pete Shadbolt Sep 10, 2025 ▶ 6:38 Raising $2 Billion to Become the SpaceX of Quantum | PsiQuantum's Pete Shadbolt · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
SOURCERY Prediction Open · timeframe Sep 2030
Shadbolt: Quantum computers will solve simulations impossible on classical supercomputers
“Our conventional supercomputers suck at predicting the properties of these microscopic things. And that happens to be exactly the set of problems where a quantum computer is perfectly suited and where we will solve problems that can never be solved by any conv…”
Pete Shadbolt Sep 10, 2025 ▶ 24:25 Raising $2 Billion to Become the SpaceX of Quantum | PsiQuantum's Pete Shadbolt · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
SOURCERY Assertion Not checkable as stated
Shadbolt: Semiconductor industry and PsiQuantum use almost no AI in chip design
“We basically don't use AI at all inside the company to design chips. And I think if you go and look at people who are building millions of chips in industry, there's a very small amount of AI, if any, that's being involved in the actual design of those chips t…”
Pete Shadbolt Sep 10, 2025 ▶ 34:01 Raising $2 Billion to Become the SpaceX of Quantum | PsiQuantum's Pete Shadbolt · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
SOURCERY Prediction Not checkable as stated
Shadbolt: AI will not dramatically accelerate PsiQuantum's hardware timelines
“So no, I don't think the AI is going to dramatically reduce our timelines. Currently our timelines are mostly determined as far as I can tell by infrastructure, right? We're breaking ground on these sites in Australia and Chicago. These are roughly a hundred m…”
Pete Shadbolt Sep 10, 2025 ▶ 34:48 Raising $2 Billion to Become the SpaceX of Quantum | PsiQuantum's Pete Shadbolt · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
SOURCERY Assertion Supported
Shadbolt: Australia's chief scientist found PsiQuantum a 'country mile ahead'
“And then at the end of that, I don't know, 18 month process she concludes that we're a country mile ahead of anyone else.”
Pete Shadbolt Sep 10, 2025 ▶ 41:18 Raising $2 Billion to Become the SpaceX of Quantum | PsiQuantum's Pete Shadbolt · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
SOURCERY Assertion Supported
Shadbolt: Nobody has built a useful quantum computer yet
“Nobody has a useful quantum computer.”
Pete Shadbolt Sep 10, 2025 ▶ 47:34 Raising $2 Billion to Become the SpaceX of Quantum | PsiQuantum's Pete Shadbolt · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
SOURCERY Prediction Not checkable as stated
Shadbolt: Quantum computing companies are far more likely to go to zero
“Yeah, I think that there is a serious prospect that these companies do that, but there is a much greater chance that they go to zero is basically my simple way of putting it.”
Pete Shadbolt Sep 10, 2025 ▶ 48:04 Raising $2 Billion to Become the SpaceX of Quantum | PsiQuantum's Pete Shadbolt · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
SOURCERY Prediction Held up
Shadbolt: Quantum commercial adoption will precede cryptographic security risks
“You should get like an economic early warning sign essentially where you should see quantum computing companies Doing commercially impactful things, making money, and then eventually scaling towards systems that are big enough to be cryptographically relevant.”
Pete Shadbolt Sep 10, 2025 ▶ 1:22:35 Raising $2 Billion to Become the SpaceX of Quantum | PsiQuantum's Pete Shadbolt · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
SOURCERY Assertion Not checkable as stated
Shadbolt: Quantum has consumed billions and 100k human-years without useful machines
“Quantum computing has already consumed billions and billions and billions of dollars of capital. It has consumed the entire adult life of tens of thousands of our best scientists and researchers. Some total has got to be nearly a 100,000 years of human life. B…”
Pete Shadbolt Sep 10, 2025 ▶ 1:35:41 Raising $2 Billion to Become the SpaceX of Quantum | PsiQuantum's Pete Shadbolt · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
SOURCERY Assertion Supported
Shadbolt: PsiQuantum secured $1B AUD Australian deal for Brisbane quantum computer
“Last year we announced these major deals with the Australian government. So that's about a billion dollar Australian deal for us to build a very large scale quantum computer in Brisbane.”
Pete Shadbolt Sep 10, 2025 ▶ 3:11 Raising $2 Billion to Become the SpaceX of Quantum | PsiQuantum's Pete Shadbolt · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
SOURCERY Assertion Supported
Shadbolt: PsiQuantum has raised more private capital than any quantum peer
“That's right to my knowledge, yeah.”
Pete Shadbolt Sep 10, 2025 ▶ 5:30 Raising $2 Billion to Become the SpaceX of Quantum | PsiQuantum's Pete Shadbolt · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
SOURCERY Prediction Open · timeframe Sep 2030
Shadbolt: Quantum computers will generate training data for standard GPU models
“With that, we should be able to generate extremely precise data in otherwise unexplored territory of chemical space of material space and use that data to drive to train a conventional machine learning system. I think through that kind of mechanism, we can Pro…”
Pete Shadbolt Sep 10, 2025 ▶ 31:05 Raising $2 Billion to Become the SpaceX of Quantum | PsiQuantum's Pete Shadbolt · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
SOURCERY Assertion Supported
Shadbolt: PsiQuantum is one of two companies in DARPA's final quantum phase
“And they have just graduated to the final phase of our program. They're one of two companies to have reached that point.”
Pete Shadbolt Sep 10, 2025 ▶ 44:09 Raising $2 Billion to Become the SpaceX of Quantum | PsiQuantum's Pete Shadbolt · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
SOURCERY Assertion Contradicted
Shadbolt: GlobalFoundries is the last remaining US tier-one pure-play foundry
“GF is really the last remaining pure play semiconductor, like tier one semiconductor foundry in the United States. So we offshored huge fractions of our semiconductor industry, as far as like a high volume, 300 millimeter foundry that is making chips for indus…”
Pete Shadbolt Sep 10, 2025 ▶ 1:11:05 Raising $2 Billion to Become the SpaceX of Quantum | PsiQuantum's Pete Shadbolt · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
SOURCERY Assertion Supported
Shadbolt: Quantum codebreaking requires a larger system than commercial utility
“As far as we understand still, despite these new architectural results, algorithmic results, you still need a bigger computer to do code breaking than you do to tackle the commercially useful applications that we talked about earlier.”
Pete Shadbolt Sep 10, 2025 ▶ 1:21:44 Raising $2 Billion to Become the SpaceX of Quantum | PsiQuantum's Pete Shadbolt · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
SOURCERY Assertion Supported
Shadbolt: PsiQuantum alone produces its optical material on 300mm wafers
“We're the only people in the world who make that on a 300 millimeter wafer.”
Pete Shadbolt Sep 10, 2025 ▶ 1:28:40 Raising $2 Billion to Become the SpaceX of Quantum | PsiQuantum's Pete Shadbolt · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
SOURCERY Prediction Not checkable as stated
Shadbolt: Reaching the end of Moore's Law will be painful next decade
“Like we're coming to the end of Moore's law. We cannot make smaller transistors. That's going to get really, really painful in the next decade.”
Pete Shadbolt Sep 10, 2025 ▶ 1:33:25 Raising $2 Billion to Become the SpaceX of Quantum | PsiQuantum's Pete Shadbolt · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
SOURCERY Assertion Supported
Shadbolt: PsiQuantum builds 35-layer superconducting wafers in commercial foundries
“So when I look at those wafers that you've seen in our facility, and I think about the fact that there's 35 layers of stuff on that wafer, that there's a superconducting material inside, and that it was made in a commercial foundry next to regular chips.”
Pete Shadbolt Sep 10, 2025 ▶ 1:43:54 Raising $2 Billion to Become the SpaceX of Quantum | PsiQuantum's Pete Shadbolt · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
SOURCERY Assertion Supported
Shadbolt: PsiQuantum is anchor tenant of $500M Chicago quantum campus
“And then also that we would be the anchor tenant Of a new five hundred million dollar quantum computing campus that's being built in Chicago.”
Pete Shadbolt Sep 10, 2025 ▶ 3:24 Raising $2 Billion to Become the SpaceX of Quantum | PsiQuantum's Pete Shadbolt · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
SOURCERY Assertion Supported
Shadbolt: NVIDIA is explicit about not building a quantum computer
“NVIDIA have been pretty explicit that they're not building a quantum computer, but they do see a whole bunch of opportunities to contribute to the ecosystem.”
Pete Shadbolt Sep 10, 2025 ▶ 15:47 Raising $2 Billion to Become the SpaceX of Quantum | PsiQuantum's Pete Shadbolt · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
SOURCERY Prediction Not checkable as stated
Shadbolt: Most people will never directly interact with a quantum computer
“Quantum computing is the same, right? Like most people will never program a quantum computer. Most people will never directly interact with a quantum computer.”
Pete Shadbolt Sep 10, 2025 ▶ 39:41 Raising $2 Billion to Become the SpaceX of Quantum | PsiQuantum's Pete Shadbolt · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
SOURCERY Assertion Supported
Shadbolt: BTO is the strongest electro-optic material known to science
“It's made with the strongest electro optic material known to science.”
Pete Shadbolt Sep 10, 2025 ▶ 1:41:28 Raising $2 Billion to Become the SpaceX of Quantum | PsiQuantum's Pete Shadbolt · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
SOURCERY Assertion Not checkable as stated
Shadbolt: 14 chip and optical companies sought PsiQuantum's breakthrough material
“When we published that paper in nature, I think it was something like 14 regular optical networking and semiconductor companies rang up global foundries asking how they could get access to that material because it is basically the strongest optical material kn…”
Pete Shadbolt Sep 10, 2025 ▶ 1:28:18 Raising $2 Billion to Become the SpaceX of Quantum | PsiQuantum's Pete Shadbolt · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
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