Cybersecurity
Alibaba Secures Data Centers With Quantum Research Lab
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Aliyun, the cloud-computing arm of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., is co-founding a quantum computing laboratory with the Chinese Academy of Sciences to help secure its data centers and develop a new type of computer.
The formation of the Alibaba Quantum Computing Laboratory in Shanghai is similar to research initiatives by Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., International Business Machines Corp. and various government-backed scientific laboratories.