Quote of the day by PsiQuantum CEO Jeremy O’Brien: 'If you think the goal is to get to the top of the Empire State Building, you build longer ladders' — a challenge to incremental hardware progress in quantum computing

PsiQuantum CEO Jeremy O'Brien expressed his ambition to build quantum computers with a million or more qubits to surpass the most powerful classical computers. At a time when scaling qubits was the primary focus, O'Brien stated that he was "fanatical" about reaching this lofty milestone. However, recent research has shifted towards developing more reliable qubits, as quantum processors are notoriously prone to errors.

While the ultimate goal remains to create a quantum computer that outperforms classical machines, experts now anticipate that future advancements may require significantly fewer qubits than the million previously targeted.