Bloomberg Technology: Live From Nvidia's GTC Event
LUDLOW IS SPEAKING WITH SOME OF THE LEADERS IN THE QUANTUM COMPUTING FIELD. LET'S GO NOW TO ADD. -- TO ED. ED: THE MAJOR FOCUS TODAY AT THE GDC CONFERENCE HAS BEEN QUANTUM COMPUTING. OVER THE NEXT 30 MINUTES OR SO,
WE WILL SPEAK TO NVIDIA'S SENIOR DIRECTOR OF QUANTUM TECH, AS WELL AS THE LEADERS OF QUANTUM COMPUTING COMPANIES. THE SHARES OF THOSE COMPANIES, THERE IS DOWNWARD PRESSURE ON A NUMBER OF QUANTUM COMPUTING STOCKS TODAY. THAT PRESSURE CONTINUED AS THEY WERE SPEAKING ONSTAGE ALONGSIDE NVIDIA'S CEO. REMEMBER, QUANTUM STOCKS WENT INTO FREEFALL ON JANUARY 8 AFTER NVIDIA'S CEO SAID WE WERE MORE THAN A DECADE AWAY FROM QUANTUM COMPUTERS BEING ABLE TO DO ANYTHING USEFUL. FAST FORWARD TO TODAY, AND HE HAD THIS TO SAY ABOUT THOSE EARLIER COMMENTS. HAVE A LISTEN. JENSEN: I'M A PUBLIC COMPANY CEO, AND EVERY SO OFTEN SOMEONE ASKS ME A QUESTION, AND MOST OF THE TIME -- MOST OF THE TIME -- WELL, SOME OF THE TIME -- I AM TRYING TO LOWER THE BAR HERE. SOME OF THE TIME, I SAY
SOMETHING RIGHT. AND SOMETIMES IT COMES OUT WRONG. ED: HERE IS THE THING. IN THE WORLD OF TECHNOLOGY, HISTORICALLY, THESE HAVE BEEN DISTINCT FIELDS, QUANTUM COMPUTING AND ACCELERATED COMPUTING, OR SUPERCOMPUTERS FOR AI. INCREASINGLY, THOSE WORLDS ARE COMING TOGETHER. JOINING ME NOW IS TIM COSTA, THE SENIOR DIRECTOR FOR QUANTUM COMPUTING AT NVIDIA.
THE REALLY IMPORTANT PLACE TO START IS WHAT NVIDIA DOES AND WHAT NVIDIA DOES NOT DO. NVIDIA DOES NOT MAKE QUANTUM COMPUTERS, NOR DOES IT SELL QUANTUM COMPUTERS. IT DOES PROVIDE ARCHITECTURE, SOFTWARE, AND SERVICES TO THAT INDUSTRY. EXPLAIN YOUR ROLE, PLEASE.
>> YOU NAILED IT ON THE HEAD WITH THE EASY PART. WE DO NOT BUILD A QUANTUM COMPUTER. WE HAVE A VISION OF HER QUANTUM COMPUTING WILL BE USEFUL. IT IS THE POINT AT WHICH WE HAVE THE INTEGRATION OF LARGER SCALE QUANTUM PROCESSES AS PART OF DATA CENTERS. IT LOOKS VERY SIMILAR TO WHAT WE HAVE TODAY. IF YOU LOOK AT TODAY'S LARGE-SCALE COMPUTING INFRASTRUCTURE, WITH STORAGE AND INTERCONNECTS, IT IS VERY COMPLEX. THERE ARE ENERGY NEEDS AND EACH
PART PLAYS THE ROLE IT IS SUITED FOR. QUANTUM TECHNOLOGY OFFERS PROMISE TO BE VERY GOOD AT CERTAIN KINDS OF COMPETITION. THAT WILL BE AN ADDITIONAL ELEMENT OF THE SYSTEM. WHAT WE ARE FOCUSED ON IS REALLY HELPING QUANTUM TECH COMPANIES WHO ARE BUILDING THOSE TECHNOLOGIES TO BETTER DEVELOP THOSE TECHNOLOGIES, BECAUSE WE ARE INTERESTED IN SOLVING THE PROBLEMS IT WILL BE ABLE TO SOLVE. IT ALSO SETTING UP THE INFRASTRUCTURE TO BE THE BEST PARTNER TO THAT DEVICE, TO BE ABLE TO DO THINGS LIKE ERROR CORRECTION, CALIBRATION OF THE DEVICES. THESE ARE IN SOME WAYS THINGS
YOU CAN THINK OF AS PHYSICS EXPERIMENTS AS MUCH AS A COMPUTER. MANAGING THAT PHYSICS EXPERIMENT AND GETTING THE RIGHT RESULTS IS A COMPLEX COMPUTATIONAL TASK THAT WE LOOK TO OUR ACCELERATED SUPERCOMPUTERS TO PERFORM. ED: WE'RE TALKING ABOUT A COMPUTER SCIENCE -- SCIENTIST OR ENGINEER WITH ACCESS TO SOME OF YOUR GP USE, IN WHATEVER FORM FACTOR. IT COULD BE THE SINGLE GPU. IT COULD BE SCALED UP TO THE SERVER DESIGN.
WHAT IS THE MARKET? HOW WIDELY IS YOUR TECHNOLOGY BEING USED IN PARALLEL WITH WHAT -- WITH MANY OF THE OTHER QUANTUM NAMES WE SAW TODAY? JENSEN: -- >> WE SAW OUR PARTNERS WHO ARE ENGAGED IN ACCELERATED COMPUTING TECHNOLOGY INCLUDING THE SOFTWARE STACKS AND OTHER COMPONENTS WE DEVELOP. IN THE RESEARCH PROGRAM, TO WORK WITH THEIR CLIENTS AND WORK ON ALGORITHM DESIGN BY SIRI LETTING A QUANTUM COMPUTER, AND DOING THE FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH TO DRIVE TOWARD THE VISION I DISCUSSED A MINUTE AGO, WHERE WE HAVE TIGHT INTEGRATION OF THESE DEVICES TOGETHER. THAT INVOLVES WORK ON THE INTERCONNECT. THAT INVOLVES DEVELOPING NEW METHODS FOR ERROR CORRECTION THAT CAN BE DEPLOYED AT SCALE ON A LARGE SUPERCOMPUTER USING NOVEL AI METHODS. BUT THOSE ARE NOT OUR ONLY PARTNERS IN THE ECOSYSTEM. WE ARE WORKING WITH OVER 160
GROUPS IN QUANTUM COMPUTING. THE RANGE OF APPLICATION AREAS IS WIDE. THERE USING TECHNOLOGY TO ACCELERATE THEIR WORK. ED: WE STARTED THE DAY WITH THE IDEA THAT NVIDIA TECHNOLOGY CAN HELP QUANTUM COMPUTERS ACCELERATE THEIR TIMELINE, AND REACH THAT USEFUL METRIC.
THE IDEA PUT TO JENSEN HUANG BY THIS PARTNERS WAS ACTUALLY THE OUTPUT OF A QUANTUM COMPUTER -- IN OTHER WORDS, THE COMPUTATION -- CAN WORK BOTH WAYS. IT CAN BE SUMMIT FOR USE IN THE TRAINING OF A FOUNDATION MODEL. WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF THAT? >> THERE ARE TWO SIDES AND THEY ARE REALLY IMPORTANT AND REALLY FASCINATING. USING AI MODELS TO ACTUALLY CONTROL AND ERROR CORRECT OF LARGER AND MORE CAPABLE QUANTUM DEVICES IS INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT. THE OTHER SIDE THAT WAS BROUGHT
UP TODAY -- IT IS A FASCINATING TOPIC. WHAT IS A QUANTUM COMPUTER, IF YOU START TO BOIL IT DOWN? I WON'T TRY TO GO TOO FAR DOWN. THEY ARE REALLY PHYSICS EXPERIMENTS, MODELING QUANTUM PHYSICS IN THE DEVICE.
THEY ARE ABLE TO POTENTIALLY PROVIDE DATA TO TRY TO FIND TWO MODELS FOR UNDERSTANDING THE VERY PHENOMENA THAT ARE INSIDE A COMPUTER IN WAYS THAT WILL ANSWER QUESTIONS. WE THINK THAT IS A REALLY EXCITING AREA TO PURSUE AND WE ARE ENGAGED WITH OUR PARTNERS ACROSS THOSE AREAS. ED: TALKING WITH ALL THE ATTENDEES, I DON'T THINK WE HAVE REACHED DEFINITIVE AGREEMENT ON WHAT USEFUL IS, BUT I THINK WE HAVE DEFINITELY REACHED AGREEMENT WITHIN YOUR INDUSTRY THAT THIS ACCELERATES WHAT IS HAPPENING, IF YOU PARDON THE PUN. ACCELERATED QUANTUM COMPUTING, WHAT HAPPENS NEXT FOR NVIDIA AND THE FOOTPRINT IN COMPUTING QUESTION MARK THERE IS A RESEARCH CENTER IN BOSTON. WHY IS THAT AN IMPORTANT STEP? >> ONE OF THE THINGS WE HAVE TO DO IF WE HAD A QUANTUM ACCELERATOR TO A COMPUTER LIKE WHAT WE BUILT TODAY -- THAT IS A NEW KIND OF COMPUTER. THAT IS A PHYSICAL ENDEAVOR AND HAS A FOOTPRINT. THE CENTER IN BOSTON WON'T BE
THE ONLY PLACE THAT HAPPENS IN THE WORLD, BUT IT IS A PLACE WHERE SOME OF OUR PARTNERS AND US, CAN WORK ON DEVELOPING THE ERROR CORRECTION TECHNOLOGIES, AND LITERALLY STRING UP THERE QUANTUM DEVICES TO OUR GP USE AND BUILD THE FIRST VERSIONS OF THESE QUANTUM ACCELERATED SUPERCOMPUTERS WE ARE ALL WORKING TOWARD. ED: YOUR VIEW ON WHAT IS USEFUL, WHAT DO YOU THINK A QUANTUM COMPUTER WILL BE ABLE TO ACHIEVE, WHETHER IT IS ASSISTED BY NVIDIA OR NOT? TIM: ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS TALKED ABOUT ON STAGE WAS NARROWING THE FOCUS AND DECIDING WHAT THE PROBLEM IS, SO YOU CAN DEFINE SUCCESS AND CHASE AFTER IT. I THINK THERE IS FAIRLY WIDE AGREEMENT IN THE COMMUNITY THAT ONE OF THE FIRST AREAS IS TO HAVE NEW KINDS OF PROBLEMS SOLVED THAT WERE NOT BEFORE, IN CHEMISTRY, BIOCHEMISTRY RELATED AREAS. THERE IS SOME KIND OF SNIFF TEST, RIGHT? YOU HAVE QUANTUM PHYSICS IN THE QUANTUM DEVICE, AND THE ABILITY FOR THAT TO MODEL QUANTUM PHYSICS IN TERMS OF WHAT IS REQUIRED FOR VERY ACCURATE CHEMISTRY KIND OF MAKES SENSE. WE THINK THAT IS GOING TO BE THE FIRST AREA THAT IS DISRUPTED, OR AT LEAST I DO.
AS WE SAW FROM THE PANELISTS, THERE ARE A WIDE VARIETY OF OPINIONS ON EVERYTHING IN QUANTUM. I THINK THAT IS PROMISING. ED: A LOT MORE COMING UP. WE SPEAK WITH PETER CHAPMAN NEXT. WE WILL BE RIGHT BACK. ♪ ED: WELCOME BACK TO A NEW BLOOMBERG TECHNOLOGY AT NVIDIA'S QUANTUM DAY.
THE COMPANY'S STOCK WAS ONE OF THOSE HARDEST HIT JANUARY 8, AFTER THOSE COMMENTS ABOUT QUANTUM COMPUTING AND ITS USEFULNESS BEING A DECADE OR MORE AWAY. SINCE THEN, THEY HAVE GONE THROUGH SOME CHANGES, APPOINTING NICCOLO TOMASI AS THE NEW CEO. THE FORMER CEO CONTINUES AS EXECUTIVE CHAIR AND JOINS US NOW ON SET. WHAT WAS INTERESTING IN THE CONVERSATION IS THAT YOU WERE BALANCED IN SAYING I DON'T THINK WE NECESSARILY AGREE ON EVERYTHING STILL. LET'S START WITH THE MAIN POINT, WHICH IS DID WE FIND -- DID WE DEFINE USEFULNESS, AND DO YOU HAVE A SENSE THAT THERE IS A NEW TIMELINE OF WHEN USEFULNESS WILL BE ACHIEVED? >> I THINK KIND OF THE PURPOSE OF TODAY WAS TO BRING THAT TIMELINE IN. THE KIND OF TAKE BACK WHAT IT
IS THAT HE HAD SAID BEFORE. HE SAID IT ON STAGE I THINK TWICE. IT WAS HIS MIA CULP UP. THAT WAS THE PURPOSE OF TODAY. ED: HE SAID HE WOULD BE THE FIRST CEO IN HISTORY PROBABLY TO INVITE A PANEL OF PEOPLE TO TELL HIM HE WAS WRONG. >> IT IS FUNNY. WE HAVE BEEN WORKING WITH NVIDIA ON A DEMONSTRATION FOR TODAY THAT WAS WITH NVIDIA, AWS, AND ASTRAZENECA, WHERE WE GOT 20 X IMPROVEMENT ON WHAT WE HAD DONE PREVIOUSLY.
ALSO, WE HAD TAKEN, WITH A PRODUCT THEY DO, WHICH IS NORMALLY RUN ON GP USE, AND MANAGED TO GET A 12% INCREASE IN USING OUR QUANTUM COMPUTERS. SO WHILE THOSE NUMBERS ARE NOT REALLY ENOUGH TO TAKE OVER THE MARKET, BECAUSE USUALLY YOU NEED ONE OR TWO ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE TO BE DISRUPTIVE TO A MARKET, THE FACT THAT WE MANAGED TO DO IT ON KIND OF OUR 36 QUBIT SYSTEM IS REALLY REMARKABLE. ED: WE GOT INTO IT DURING THE PANEL. YOU HAD ACCESS TO ARCHITECTURE,
HIGH-PERFORMANCE CPUS, SOME SOFTWARE OR OPEN SOURCE SOLUTIONS. THEY SAY THAT WOULD HELP ENGINEERS AND COMPUTER SCIENTISTS CALIBRATE, PRODUCE ERROR COUNT, DESIGN BETTER. IS THAT HOW IT ACTUALLY PLAYS OUT FOR YOU? >> SOME ASPECTS. WE HAVE A DG X CLUSTER WE USE
FOR DESIGNING OTHER QUANTUM COMPUTERS. NOT SO MUCH IN THE ERROR CORRECTION ASPECT. THAT IS SOMETHING WE DO OURSELVES. CERTAINLY, WE USE A NUMBER OF GP USE FOR DESIGNING THE QUANTUM COMPUTER ITSELF. WE ALSO, FOR SMALL QUBIT COUNTS, BECAUSE SOMETIMES YOU CAN NO LONGER SIMULATE ONE OF THESE. FOR THOSE, WE ACTUALLY RUN THE
SIMULATION JUST TO MAKE SURE OUR HARDWARE IS WORKING CORRECTLY. THE PROBLEM IS WHEN YOU GET TO 64, YOU NEED TO END A HALF USE. BECAUSE PERFORMANCE ESSENTIALLY DOUBLES, RIGHT.
THAT MEANS THE MATRIX MATH YOU HAVE TO DO SUDDENLY IS DOUBLING AS WELL. BASICALLY, IT IS ABOUT 35 TO FULLY SIMULATE IT. YOU CAN ONLY GET IT ON A SINGLE DG X 100. ED: I WONDER IF THIS TIES INTO THE NEW CEO AND THIS RESET A LITTLE BIT. THERE IS A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A LAB EXPERIMENT AND COMMERCIAL USE. REVENUE GENERATION IS THE QUESTION I GET FOR YOU THE MOST. PETER: WHAT JENSEN SAID, ONE AREA WE
AGREE ON IS YOU NEED TO FIND A SET OF APPLICATIONS EARLY ON THAT YOU CAN START TO MAKE MONEY ON, AND BUILD THAT FIREWALL TO BE ABLE TO POWER YOUR RMD. THE EXAMPLES WE ARE TALKING TODAY, FOR INSTANCE, IN THE CHEMISTRY APPLICATION, IS EXACTLY THOSE KINDS OF THINGS. SO THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT OUR PLAN IS. ED: YOU ARE THE EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN NOW. YOU WERE CEO ONE WEEK AGO. THERE WAS A SHORT REPORT ON YOUR STOCK. I WANT TO GIVE YOU A CHANCE TO RESPOND AS WE HAVE NOT HAD A CHANCE TO SPEAK SINCE THEN. PETER:
IT IS A SHORT REPORT. THE GOAL IS TO CAST DOUBT ABOUT THE COMPANY AND MAKE MONEY THAT WAY. UNFORTUNATELY, IF YOU ARE A PUBLIC COMPANY, THESE ARE THE KINDS OF THINGS YOU HAVE TO ENDURE. WE DON'T PUT MUCH CREDENCE TO THOSE THINGS. ED: I WANT TO ASK YOU HOW BIG THE DAY WAS IN TERMS OF THE CHANGE OF TRAJECTORY. JENSEN HUANG IS A CHARACTER, AND HE WAS HONEST ON STAGE.
BUT GDC IS AN INCREDIBLE EVENT. IT HAS SCALE. IT HAS EYEBALLS. DO YOU THINK YOU WILL SEE SOMETHING COME OUT OF THIS FOR YOUR COMPANY, FOR YOUR SECTOR? PETER: JENSEN'S GOAL WAS TO GIVE US THE MICROPHONE TO BE ABLE TO GET OUT OUR STORY. THAT IS IMPORTANT. IF YOU WERE SAM ALTMAN FIVE YEARS AGO, TRYING TO CONVINCE THE WORLD THAT AI IS COMING, PROBABLY YOU WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN SUCCESSFUL. THE QUESTION IS, HOW MUCH TIME SHOULD SAM ALTMAN TRY TO CONVINCE THE WORLD AI IS COMING, INSTEAD OF GOING TO MAKE IT HAPPEN? IN THAT SENSE, IT IS PROBABLY NOT THAT SIGNIFICANT.
WHAT REALLY MATTERS IS ACTUALLY GOING AND DOING IT, NOT GETTING THE MESSAGE OUT. ED: THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME IN SAN JOSE AT DTC. MUCH MORE TO COME. THE CEO OF ANOTHER OF THE QUANTUM COMPUTING -- THEY HAVE AN EXAMPLE OF SUCCESS OR SOMETHING USEFUL, BLOCKCHAIN ARCHITECTURE. THAT IS NEXT. ED: WELCOME BACK TO A SPECIAL EDITION OF BLOOMBERG TECHNOLOGY, LIVE FROM NVIDIA'S QUANTUM DAY.
SHARES OF SOME QUANTUM COMPANIES SANK TODAY AFTER LEADERS SPOKE AT AN EVENT WITH JENSEN HUANG. THE PLUNGE FOLLOWS A SIMILAR MOVE BACK IN JANUARY AFTER HE SAID IT WOULD BE MORE THAN A DECADE BEFORE THE TECHNOLOGY QUANTUM COMPUTING COULD DO SOMETHING THAT IS USEFUL. IT IS QUICKEST TO SAY -- ONE WAS THE D WAVE CEO ALAN BARRETTES.
FOR WHATEVER REASON, I'M GRATEFUL FOR YOUR TIME. IT IS FAIR TO SAY THAT AMONG THE PANELISTS, YOU MAINTAIN THOSE AREAS YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH JENSEN HUANG ON. HOW IS YOUR MIND CHANGED ON THOSE DIFFERENCES THROUGH THE COURSE OF TODAY? ALAN: MY MIND HAS NOT CHANGED. THE FACT OF THE MATTER IS THAT WE AT D WAVE HAVE TAKEN A VERY DIFFERENT QUOTE -- APPROACH TO QUANTUM COMPUTING FROM EVERYBODY ELSE IN THE INDUSTRY. AND WE ARE ABLE TO SUPPORT USEFUL, IMPORTANT APPLICATIONS TODAY. THE BEST EXAMPLE IS THE PAPER WE PUBLISHED IN "SCIENCE" LAST WEEK, WHERE WE HAVE DEMONSTRATED THAT WE CAN COMPUTE PROPERTIES OF MAGNETIC MATERIALS THAT JUST COULD NOT BE COMPUTED CLASSICALLY. THIS GIVES US THE OPPORTUNITY
TO CREATE NEW MATERIALS, DISCOVERY PLATFORMS, WHICH WILL DRAMATICALLY REDUCE THE TIME AND COST TO CREATE NEW MATERIALS. THAT SEEMS PRETTY USEFUL TO ME. ED: THERE IS ALSO SOME APPLICATIONS THE AUDIENCE MIGHT FIND HARDER TO UNDERSTAND, FOR EXAMPLE BLOCKCHAIN ARCHITECTURE. WHY IS A QUANTUM COMPUTER ABLE TO IMPROVE THAT PROCESS, WHERE A SUPERCOMPUTER CLASSICALLY CODED IN ONES AND ZEROS CANNOT? ALAN: WE WERE ABLE TO SHOW THAT THE SAME COMPUTATION THAT WE USED TO COMPUTE PROPERTIES OF MAGNETIC MATERIALS COULD BE USED TO BASICALLY COMPUTE THE HASHING FUNCTIONS THAT ARE USED IN BLOCKCHAIN AND CRYPTOCURRENCY. WHAT THIS MEANS IS THAT WE CAN NOW CREATE A BLOCKCHAIN THAT USES A QUANTUM COMPUTER TO DO THE PROOF OF WORK. QUANTUM COMPUTERS CONSUME FAR LESS ENERGY THAN CLASSICAL COMPUTERS. THIS MEANS CRYPTOCURRENCY
MINING COULD BE AT A FRACTION OF THE ENERGY COST OF WHAT WE'RE ARE SEEING TODAY. ED: ONE OF THOSE CASE STUDIES REVENUE GENERATORS FOR YOU? ALAN: THE FIRST PROTOTYPE OF THIS BLOCKCHAIN IS RUNNING RIGHT NOW. WE HAVE IT RUNNING ON FOUR OF OUR QUANTUM COMPUTING.
IT IS THE FIRST JUST RIVETED QUANTUM COMPUTING APPLICATION. EACH OF THE QUANTUM COMPUTERS CAN CREATE OR VALIDATE HASHES, BASICALLY WHEN THE PROOF OF WORK ALGORITHM. WE ARE IN THE PROCESS OF BUILDING THAT OUT SO WE CAN GET TO THE POINT WHERE WE CAN SUPPORT A FULL COMMERCIAL BLOCKCHAIN. I THINK WE ARE LOOKING AT A YEAR OR TWO. OR 10 OR 15 OR 20. ED: SO THERE IS WORK. ALAN: THAT IS JUST ONE APPLICATION, RIGHT? THE DISCOVERY IS RUNNING TODAY.
WE HAVE CUSTOMERS USING US TODAY FOR TELLER RESOURCE OPTIMIZATION. WE ARE USEFUL TODAY. BLOCKCHAIN IS ONE OF OUR NEWEST APPLICATION AREAS. WE ARE JUST STARTING TO ROLL OUT. ED:
I THINK THE POINT IS JENSEN 'S DEFINITION OF USEFULNESS, PERHAPS. TO SUMMARIZE, IT IS BASICALLY OFFERING GPU ACCESS ON THE ARCHITECTURE SIDE AS WELL AS SOME RESEARCH AND OPEN SOURCE FACILITIES ON THE OTHER SIDE. THE ARGUMENT IS THAT YOU CAN TAKE THAT AND USE IT TO MAKE YOUR QUANTUM COMPUTERS BETTER -- CALIBRATION, ERROR COUNT REDUCTION. YOUR COLLEAGUES MENTIONED
DESIGN. HOW DO YOU WORK WITH NVIDIA? ALAN: QUANTUM COMPUTERS DO NOT HAVE THE SAME ERROR CORRECTION REQUIREMENTS. WE ARE SOLVING USEFUL PROBLEMS TODAY WITHOUT ERROR CORRECTION.
AS A RESULT, THAT COMPONENT OF WHAT NVIDIA BRINGS TO THE TABLE IS NOT ALL THAT IMPORTANT TO US TODAY. IT COMES TO CALIBRATION. WE HAVE THE LARGEST QUANTUM COMPUTERS IN THE WORLD. OUR CURRENT SYSTEMS ARE AT 5000 CUBITS AND GROWING. WE DO NOT NEED TO BE EMPOWERED TO CALIBRATE CONSISTENCY.
CURRENTLY, WE DID NOT. I KNOW JENSEN SAYS HE WORKS WITH ALL THE COMPANIES, BUT D WAVE IS QUITE DIFFERENT. WE HAVE TAKEN A DIFFERENT APPROACH.
WE ARE AT A DIFFERENT LEVEL OF MATURITY. WE ARE MORE MATURE THAN THE OTHER QUANTUM COMPUTING COMPANIES. USEFUL VALUE TODAY. THAT HAVING BEEN SAID, WE ARE ALSO DEVELOPING A GATEWAY QUANTUM COMPUTER, THE APPROACH EVERYONE ELSE IS TAKING. WE WILL BE LOOKING TO LEVERAGE SOME OF THE SAME SORTS OF THINGS THAT THE OTHER QUANTUM COMPUTING COMPANIES ARE LEVERAGING. WE FEEL THE ANNEALING IS VERY
COMPLEMENTARY. THEY SOLVE DIFFERENT CLASSES OF PROBLEMS. ED: WE HAVE 30 SECONDS. IT WAS A PRETTY PUBLIC DEBATE. WILL IT HELP YOU IN THE LONG RUN, WHAT HAPPENED IN SAN JOSE? ALAN: I DON'T THINK THIS EVENT WAS ALL THAT HELPFUL TO THE INDUSTRY OR TO D WAVE. I THANK JENSEN FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO PARTICIPATE. I THINK IT WAS GREAT TO HAVE
THE OPPORTUNITY TO TRY TO GET THE MESSAGE OUT. I THINK WE ARE STILL AT THE BEGINNING OF A LEARNING CURVE WITH RESPECT TO HOW NVIDIA AND JENSEN INTERACT WITH QUANTUM COMPUTING COMPANIES. ED: THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME HERE IN SAN JOSE, WHETHER YOU AGREE WITH YOUR HOST OR NOT. THAT DOES IT FOR THIS SPECIAL EDITION OF BLOOMBERG TECHNOLOGY. A LOT TO RECAP, PARTICULARLY WHEN IT COMES TO QUANTUM COMPUTING. DON'T FORGET OUR PODCAST. YOU
CAN FIND IT ON THE BLOOMBERG TERMINAL. LIVE FROM SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA, AT DTC, NVIDIA'S QUANTUM DAY. ♪
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