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Microsoft puts Azure Quantum Elements to work

Microsoft today announced that it has worked with the U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) to use its Azure Quantum

Microsoft today announced that it has worked with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) to use its Azure Quantum Elements service to whittle down millions of potential new battery materials to only a few — with one of them now in the prototype stage. “The intersection of AI, cloud and high-performance computing, along with human scientists, we believe is key to accelerating the path to meaningful scientific results,” said Tony Peurrung, PNNL Deputy Director for Science and Technology. Svore, unsurprisingly, remains optimistic that Microsoft will be able to deliver on its plan to build a quantum supercomputer that uses its Majorana-based qubits, within the next decade.

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