Quantum computers and artificial intelligence are two of the most exciting areas of technology for the future. Now, Rigetti Computing and Quantum Machines are bringing them together.

‍What’s happening:‍

• Rigetti Computing (NASDAQ: RGTI) and Quantum Machines have announced they have successfully collaborated on leveraging artificial intelligence technology to automate the calibration of a quantum computer
  

Why it matters:‍

• Calibrating quantum computers is typically done manually by quantum physicists, which is both exceptionally time consuming and also unscalable as quantum computers continue to dramatically scale up the amount of total qubits in each piece of hardware
  
• Quantum Machines is one of the most advanced private companies focused on using artificial intelligence technology for quantum computers and has an existing partnership with Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA)
  

Going deeper:‍

• Rigetti Computing just recently completed a $100M USD at-the-market equity financing to accelerate the development of their technology and hardware
  

The intrigue:‍

• A unified system for quantum classical computing that was built by Nvidia and Quantum Machines is currently operational and being hosted at the Israeli Quantum Computing Centre located at Tel Aviv University

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