IonQ, Alice & Bob roll out quantum breakthroughs

IonQ and Alice & Bob have separately announced breakthroughs that bring quantum computing closer to reality.

Alice & Bob announced that they improved error correction 160-fold by “squeezing” qubits together. And IonQ announced that they achieved an “orders of magnitude” increase in the speed of connections between different kinds of qubits.

Error correction is the holy grail for scaling quantum computers