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Xanadu announced that its photonic quantum computer Borealis demonstrated quantum computational advantage and is available to users through the cloud.
Borealis uses 216 squeezed-state qubits and generates samples that Xanadu says would take a leading classical supercomputer approximately 9,000 years to produce through direct simulation.
The company stated that Borealis is the first fully programmable photonic quantum computer to demonstrate quantum computational advantage and the first such system made publicly accessible via the cloud.
PRESS RELEASE — Xanadu has demonstrated quantum computational advantage using Borealis, their newest photonic quantum computer. It is the first photonic quantum computer offering full programmability of all its gates to demonstrate quantum computational advantage, and the first time that a machine capable of quantum advantage has been made available to the public in the cloud. This achievement, published in Nature, is a significant milestone on the path to building a large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computer, and a pivotal step in Xanadu’s mission to build quantum computers that are useful and available to people everywhere.
