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MotherDuck wants your next question to cost less
A cloud warehouse built on DuckDB bets that faster, cheaper queries change what people bother to ask. Its customers offer a useful lesson: the first casualty of slow data is curiosity.
Strangeworks bet on quantum. The customers needed answers.
The Austin company built a doorway to quantum computing. Its more revealing discovery was that customers cared less about the machine than the decision it could improve.
Quantum Machines and the Trouble with a Brilliant Chip
A quantum processor can be a marvel and still be a terrible computer. Quantum Machines built a business around the electronics, timing and software that make the difference.
The Quantum Computer That Wants a Seat Beside the GPU
AI keeps asking for more power. Sygaldry's wager is that the next useful server will have more than one kind of qubit - and a place beside the GPUs already humming in the data center.
Quantinuum’s $1.68 Billion Bet: Make Quantum Computing Boring Enough to Buy
Quantinuum has 98 trapped ions, an enterprise software stack and fresh public-market money. Its harder experiment is proving that exceptional fidelity can become an ordinary purchase order.