High-performance computing (HPC), AI, and future quantum computing systems have the potential to help humanity make progress against some of the most complex scientific problems facing the planet, including climate change, food insecurity, and new treatments for diseases. Unlocking the full potential of these computing technologies will require global collaboration among public and private institutions. To foster the positive impacts of these technologies, we must first ensure that responsible use is at the center of their development and deployment. Responsible AI initiatives have demonstrat ..read more

Unprecedented collaboration will build the most powerful, fully integrated, AI-driven drug discovery and development platform to dramatically improve pharmaceutical research and development (R&D) productivity and bring novel therapeutics to patients faster and more cost-effectively than traditional approaches. Microsoft and 1910 Genetics, the only biotechnology company advancing small and large molecule drug discovery with a multimodal AI platform powered by laboratory automation, announced a new five-year commercial agreement and go-to-market collaboration to harness advanced AI and next ..read more

United States Government renews funding to Microsoft Azure Quantum based on recent results and detailed plans for building a quantum computer. A program run by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) aims to determine the feasibility of constructing and operating a utility-scale quantum computer, which would be capable of reliably and accurately solving meaningful problems that are prohibitive on classical computers. This program, known as the Underexplored Systems for Utility-Scale Quantum Computing (US2QC), invests in companies that are using promising, innovative approaches i ..read more

A Microsoft scientist working with the Azure Quantum Elements platform. AI is transforming every cognitive task we perform, from writing an email to developing software. Since the dawn of civilization, scientific discovery has been the ultimate cognitive task that has made us thrive and prosper as a species. For this reason, scientific discovery has probably the highest impact and is the most exciting use case for AI. We are announcing how the Microsoft Quantum team achieved a major milestone toward that vision, using advanced AI to screen over 32 million candidates to discover and synthesize ..read more

At Microsoft, we see opportunities to accelerate research and development (R&D) productivity and usher in a new era of scientific discovery by harnessing the power of today's new generation of AI. In pursuit of this goal, we recently released Copilot in Azure Quantum Elements, which enables scientists to use natural language to reason through, and orchestrate solutions to, some of the most complex chemistry and materials science problemsfrom developing safer and more sustainable products to accelerating drug discovery. With Copilot, researchers no longer need to manually sift through ..read more

What is a logical qubit? In June 2023, we offered how quantum computing must graduate through three implementation levels (quantum computing implementation levels QCILs) to achieve utility scale: Level 1 Foundational, Level 2 Resilient, Level 3 Scale.  All quantum computing technologies today are at Level 1. And while NISQ machines are all around us, they do not offer practical quantum advantage.  True utility will only come from orchestrating resilient computation across a sea of logical qubits something that, to the best of our current knowledge, can only be achieved with error cor ..read more

What is a logical qubit? In June 2023, we offered how quantum computing must graduate through three implementation levels (quantum computing implementation levels QCILs) to achieve utility scale: Level 1 Foundational, Level 2 Resilient, Level 3 Scale.  All quantum computing technologies today are at Level 1. And while NISQ machines are all around us, they do not offer practical quantum advantage.  True utility will only come from orchestrating resilient computation across a sea of logical qubits something that, to the best of our current knowledge, can only be achieved with error cor ..read more

We are excited to announce a strategic co-innovation collaboration with Photonic Inc., a company focused on building scalable, fault tolerant, and distributed quantum technologies. Our shared mission is to unlock the next stages in quantum networking and empower the quantum computing ecosystem with new capabilities enabled by our unique and complementary approaches to scalable quantum infrastructure. By combining Photonic’s novel spin-photon architecture that natively supports quantum communication over standard telecom wavelengths with the global scale and state-of-the-art infrastructure of A ..read more

Quantum computing has the potential to tackle some of our most pressing global issues, from climate change to food security. We're dedicated to building a full-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computer that can help solve these challenges, and I'm frequently asked where quantum computing will have its biggest impact. The answers are coming more clearly into focus, and include, most notably, the simulation of chemical interactions and materials on the quantum level. Reaching practical quantum advantage will require progressing across three quantum computing implementation levels; here, I want to c ..read more

Each day, the excitement and innovation around quantum computing grows. At the same time, it will require much more to reach the scale that's required of a quantum supercomputer to truly accelerate scientific discovery in new ways and solve some of our world's most challenging problems. To go from today's foundational-level quantum machines to tomorrow's scaled quantum supercomputers requires activating and compounding our collective genius. And it also requires, as an industry, acknowledging that there is still a lot of necessary work and invention to be done to achieve practical and advantag ..read more