| Hi Chad! So, if I understand it correctly, Rigetti Computing is planning on simulating how the software for a quantum computer will provide better performance than classical computing, and otherwise do useful stuff. This sounds like an interesting part of the quantum computing ecosystem, assuming that such an ecosystem evolves. So, a few questions would be: a) what does RC offer that is not already being provided by the academic algorithmic community? b) are you making the assumption that hardware specifics do not have any effect upon your goals? if so, how confident are you that this is true? does the DWave quantum annealing issue play into this at all? c) do you have any customers lined up yet? d) do you have any kind of 'challenge problem' which you think would be particularly good at demonstrating what RC (as opposed to QC in general) can do? Best of luck on your startup! |