Microsoft’s earnings call landed like a shot across the bow of the quantum industry: Satya Nadella declared that “the next big accelerator in the cloud will be quantum,” and the company paired that statement with concrete technical milestones—an operational Level 2 deployment in partnership with...
Microsoft’s latest push on quantum computing — framed publicly as a quiet technical milestone and privately as a strategic cloud bet — marks a turning point in how hyperscalers plan to deliver exotic accelerators to enterprises and researchers worldwide. Microsoft says it has deployed an...