IN THE NEWS THIS WEEK

[Quantum Technology] NVIDIA and Quantum Machines Debut DGX Quantum — First System to Couple GPUs and Quantum Computing. NVIDIA has made a revolutionary announcement about building a new system developed with Quantum Machines that offer a groundbreaking new architecture for researchers who are functioning in high-performance and low-latency quantum-classical computing. NVIDIA will be developing the world’s first GPU-accelerated quantum computing system, the NVIDIA DGX Quantum, which will merge NVIDIA Grace Hopper Superchip and CUDA Quantum open-source programming model with OPX, by Quantum Machines

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[AI] Microsoft's GitHub to add OpenAI chat functions to coding tool. Microsoft Corp.'s GitHub unit has developed one of the first widely deployed programs using OpenAI's language-generation tools—an app called Copilot which will aid the software developers to develop computer code. GitHub first reviews and partially released Copilot in 2021 but completely released it in 2022. Now GitHub is adding chat and voice feature in the program to allow programmers using voice commands to accomplish certain coding tasks. The new version is named Copilot X, demonstrated by the GitHub Chief Executive Officer Thomas Dohmke. The product is becoming a short-hand for Microsoft's strategy to deploy these kinds of assistive technologies in its products.

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[Blockchain] Sony explores blockchain technology with NFT integration for PlayStation. Sony Interactive Entertainment, the Japanese entertainment giant and maker of the PlayStation gaming console, is aiming to amalgamate non-fungible tokens (NFT) into its gaming consoles as per the published patent application. As per the patent, which was originally filed in September and titled as “NFT Framework for Transferring and Using Digital Assets between Game Platforms,” it has been cleat that Sony aims to incorporate NFTs for effective usage of the digital asset[s] across various computer simulations and computer simulation platforms. Sony valued the importance of blockchain technology as NFTs in the form of artwork or an in-game assets to attract users.

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[Industrial Metaverse] NVIDIA and Microsoft to Bring the Industrial Metaverse and AI to Hundreds of Millions of Enterprise Users via Azure Cloud. NVIDIA will be collaborating with Microsoft to offer hundreds of millions of Microsoft enterprise users with access to powerful industrial metaverse and AI supercomputing features using cloud. NVIDIA will be hosted by the Microsoft Azure with two new cloud offerings: NVIDIA Omniverse™ Cloud, a platform-as-a-service providing quick access to a full-stack environment of industrial metaverse applications; NVIDIA DGX™ Cloud, an AI supercomputing service that offers enterprises immediate access to the infrastructure and software for training advanced models for generative AI and other groundbreaking applications.

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​[General technology] Accenture trims forecasts, to cut 19,000 jobs as IT spending slows. An Accenture Plc has dropped its annual revenue and profit forecasts and is aiming to lay off about 2.5% of its workforce, or 19,000 jobs, due to the latest sign of the deteriorating global economic prospects in the corporate spending on IT services. Since 2022, the tech sector has laid off hundreds of thousands of employees. IBM Corp (IBM.N) and India's top IT services firm Tata Consultancy Services (TCS.NS) have also showcased drops in sales in Europe. Accenture is now expecting a annual revenue growth to be between 8% and 10%.

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OTHER NEWS AND TOP READS

• ​Register for the MIT Technology event Harnessing the Industrial Metaverse (in partnership with Siemens.​
• ​Global Blockchain Business Council (GBBC) and Powerledger are delighted to present the special report, 'Blockchain Technology for the Energy Sector.'​
• ​UK regulator drops key concern on Microsoft’s $75bn Activision deal
• ​MVision AI deploys an AI segmentation model to create more personalized #cancer treatment plans and improve clinical decision-making.
• ​Digital Twin Consortium launches telco working group​
• ​PwC Germany partners Chainlink Labs targeting enterprise blockchain applications.

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FEATURED

New Experiment Translates Quantum Information Between Tech in Important Step for Quantum Internet

By: Meredith Fore

Researchers have discovered a way to “translate” quantum information between different kinds of quantum technologies, with significant implications for quantum computing, communication, and networking.

The research, published in the journal Nature on Wednesday, was funded by the Army Research Office (ARO), the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), and the NSF Quantum Leap Challenge Institute for Hybrid Quantum Architectures and Networks (HQAN), which is led by the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. It represents a new way to convert quantum information from the format used by quantum computers to the format needed for quantum communication.

Photons—particles of light—are essential for quantum information technologies, but different technologies use them at different frequencies. For example, some of the most common quantum computing technology is based on superconducting qubits, such as those used by tech giants Google and IBM; these qubits store quantum information in photons that move at microwave frequencies.
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Source: https://chicagoquantum.org/news/new-experiment-translates-quantum-information-between-technologies-important-step-quantum A diagram of the electron energy levels of Rubidium. Two of the energy level gaps match the frequencies of optical photons and microwave photons, respectively. Lasers are used to force the electron to jump to higher levels or drop to lower levels.

But if you want to build a quantum network, or connect quantum computers, you can’t send around microwave photons because their grip on their quantum information is too weak to survive the trip.

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Read the full article: https://chicagoquantum.org/news/new-experiment-translates-quantum-information-between-technologies-important-step-quantum

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