
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) on Thursday announced awards to 18 companies that will flesh out their quantum computing concepts in more detail for the agency to review and determine if they merit moving into the next stage, which will be testing equipment. The Quantum Benchmarking Initiative (QBI) is a moonshot type effort by DARPA to transform the quantum computing space in the next decade to see if any company has an approach that can scale, “meaning its…