Technology giant Google released Cirq, toolkit for developing quantum algorithms, and OpenFermion-Cirq, toolkit for using quantum computers on chemistry applications

Briefing

July 20, 2018

Briefing	Quantum Computing Toolkit – Search engine giant Google released Cirq, new open source toolkit that enables developers to create quantum computing algorithms Easy-to-Use – Does not require background in quantum physics to use Chemistry Computing Toolkit – Also released OpenFermion-Cirq, new toolkit for simulating molecules and material properties on quantum computers Development Partners – Include quantum computing firms Zapata Computing and Quantum Benchmark Other Plans – Plans to make Bristlecone quantum processor available in cloud, which can be leveraged by developers to write quantum programs with Cirq
Accelerator	Cloud-Based Services, Computation and Storage
Market Disruption	Innovation Partnerships
Business Model and Practices Business Model and Practices	Innovative Partnerships
Sector	Information Technology
Organization	Google Inc.
Source	Ho, A. and Bacon, D., "Announcing Cirq: An open source framework for NISQ algorithms", Google, https://www.google.com/; Giles, M., "Google wants to make programming quantum computers easier", MIT Technology Review, https://www.technologyreview.com/; AcceleratingBiz analysis
Original Publication Date	July 18, 2018

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