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Nadella: Microsoft achieved physics breakthrough to fabricate Majorana quantum chip
“Finally we've had a physics breakthrough, and we were able to actually fabricate that particle, and so therefore that's what has led to this chip.”
Preskill: Validated topological qubit may appear as soon as 2019
“And it's very ambitious, because at this point, it's not even clear they have a single qubit, but if that approach is successful, and we're, it's making progress, so I think we will see a validated Qubit of this type soon, maybe next year.”
Nadella: World Bank study found AI copilots are top education tech intervention
“By the way, one of the other ones, since you brought it up, there was a World Bank study they did, I think in Nigeria, and now they've taken it to Peru or Chile, one of those in South America. It's, you know, we've been working at Microsoft forever on can ther…”
Gil: Microsoft essentially bootstrapped via customer fees until its pre-IPO round
“Microsoft actually used to do this in the early days and they similarly never had to raise funding. They took one round right before they went public because of a relationship, but fundamentally they just bootstrapped.”