quantum computing

“They're probably like the two areas where I feel the least comfortable trying to tell what's real from what's not real, because everybody's raised a ton of money, and it seems like serious people that are doing it, and they're smart people, and then you just c…”

“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.”

“I've actually been honestly pretty impressed that they know you need about a million qubits. They know you need error correction. They know that it's not for PowerPoint and Excel. They understand, you know, these guys have got 20 other things of extreme high p…”

“And my shorthand on what that building is doing is that it's the Foxconn of quantum computing. So our whole approach is to leverage existing fabs and contract manufacturers and so on. But that building is doing the exceptions to that rule. So where we have to …”

“We get coached that there is a certain way to do a venture backed company. And the coaching is very often you got to get some kind of revenue by any means necessary really early. And that's certainly true if you're a SaaS company, right? Like if I'm building a…”

“Our view on optimization is that it's really difficult to do like tremendously impactful optimization with a quantum computer. Conventional computers are already surprisingly good at optimization, and the quantum algorithms that we know of for optimization pro…”

“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…”

“It was really the convergence of two things to my mind the availability of hardware that was built for another purpose in this case, gaming GPUs, and then also progress on the architecture where I see very strong parallels between what we've done and what has …”

“In quantum computing, you get all of these founders, they all show up and they all think that their way is the only way to do it and sling mud at everybody else. Everything else is crap. Like, you can't win that game. Like, nobody wins in that game.”

“There's this weird thing with quantum computing where you have to use all these funky software techniques to do this error correction stuff, and so if you have a million qubits, it comes down to about, like, A thousand are really, really useful for what you're…”

“Now it seems like just about everybody can, Make cubits. They can make quite a few of them.”

“Quantum computing is a pain in the ass. And it is, you know, failed promises and endless confusion and all of this competitive jostling and it's a pain in the ass and it's like failed to deliver many, many times.”