Quantum Computers Today Aren’t Very Useful. That Could Change

Meet Rigetti Computing, the startup trying to make a computer that can (finally) live up to the hype.

Rigetti Computing’s lab in Fremont, California.

Source: Rigetti Computing

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Few corners of the tech industry are as tantalizing or complex as quantum computing. For years evangelists have promised machines capable of breaking the most impenetrable coded messages, unlocking the secret properties of the physical world and putting supercomputers to shame.

But Rigetti Computing, one of the most prominent and well-funded startups in the field, would just like to lower everyone’s expectations.