Nextbigfuture interviewed Tom Noel, ColdQuanta’s Director of Quantum Computing and Interim CEO Dan Caruso. ColdQuanta is using neutral atoms instead of trapped ions as the basis for its quantum computers. ColdQuanta is building a functional first system now and believes they will be able to scale to the 1000s of qubits faster than competing approaches. …
Nextbigfuture interviewed Danny Shapiro, Nvidia’s Senior Director of Automotive. Nio and Nvidia had announced the use of the NVIDIA DRIVE Orin system-on-a-chip (SoC) for NIO’s new generation of electric vehicles. NVIDIA’s Orin has developer kits available now and will sample chips later this year. The supercomputer, Adam, will use four ORIN processors to achieve 1 …
Nithya Thadani is the CEO of RAIN, a voice technology company that has just raised $3 million in a series A. Rain has been created voice solutions using the Alexa and Google Home APIs for the last five years for companies like Starbucks, BlackRock, Nestle, Nike, and MasterCard. RAIN is focused on going beyond the …
Fetch.ai is a Cambridge-based artificial intelligence lab building an open-access decentralized machine learning network for smart infrastructure, in partnership with Datarella, a company providing industrial blockchain solutions, announced today the launch of their smart city zoning infrastructure trials in Munich Germany. Nextbigfuture interviewed Humayun Sheikh, CEO of Fetch.ai. Humayun Sheikh is an innovation entrepreneur, founding …
Tony Uttley, President of Honeywell Quantum Solutions, described the science and technology of Honeywells Trapped Ion quantum computers at the Q2B 2019 (Quantum to Business) conference. Today, Honeywell revealed their roadmap to creating high capacity error corrected quantum computers. In an interview with Nextbigfuture, Tony indicated that they already have the H2 racetrack prototype functioning …
Nextbigfuture interviewed Tony Uttley, President of Honeywell Quantum Solutions and Brian Neyenhuis, Commercial Operations Leader, Honeywell Quantum Solutions. Honeywell has a 10 fully connected qubit system with a proven quantum volume of 128. This is the highest quantum performance for any publicly known quantum computer. In the Nextbigfuture interview, Tony Uttley and Brian Neyenhuis described …
Nextbigfuture interviewed Ophir Tanz, the CEO of Pearl. Pearl has been developing and using AI to improve dentistry for the past three years. The company officially launched last year. Ophir was CEO of GumGum for 11 years. GumGum uses artificial intelligence and computer vision across media, advertising and sports. Ophir grew the company to hundreds …
Sander Olson has provided a new, original 2020 interview with Artificial General Intelligence expert and entrepreneur Ben Goertzel. Ben is the founder of SingularityNET. Question: Hanson Robotic’s Sophia robot has garnered considerable attention. Are there any other robots being developed by Hanson robotics using OpenCog software? Yeah — my colleagues at SingularityNET / Singularity Studio …
QC Ware, a leader in enterprise software and services for quantum computing, announced a breakthrough in quantum machine learning (QML) that increases QML accuracy and speeds up the industry timeline for practical QML applications on near-term quantum computers. They have achieved a speedup of about 100 times. Nextbigfuture interviewed Yianni Gamvros, Head of Product and …
David Braun and his team and conceptually solved how to finally enable a high technology version of spring enhanced running where we could go 70% faster than Usain Bolt. They will have a prototype version in one year which with material limitations could finally enable faster running than our best sprinters. The prototypes should appear …
Aslak Stubsgaard, CTO of Copenhagen Atomics provided an update to Nextbigfuture on their development of a Molten Salt nuclear fission reactor. They are a molten salt reactor company developing a 100MW(th) thorium molten salt reactors with an initial load plutonium from spent fuel. The reactors are designed to be roughly the size of a 40-foot …
