RHIANA WHITSON, REPORTER: Quantum computing is predicted to revolutionise everything from medicine, energy networks to defence. RHIANA WHITSON: Quantum computing is still an unproven technology so some in the scientific world were surprised when last month the federal and Queensland governments announced a joint almost one-billion-dollar investment in a US based company - PsiQuantum. RHIANA WHITSON: There are also concerns …
In short: Australia will invest nearly a billion dollars to build the first commercially useful quantum computer in Brisbane. Australia will invest almost a billion dollars in a bid to build the world's first commercially useful quantum computer in Brisbane. PsiQuantum will attempt to build the world's first large "fault-tolerant" quantum computer, free from the errors and instabilities that render …