Atom Computing is the first to announce a 1,000+ qubit quantum computer

A startup company has upped its qubit count by an order of magnitude in two years.

Today, a startup called Atom Computing announced that it has been doing internal testing of a 1,180 qubit quantum computer and will be making it available to customers next year. The system represents a major step forward for the company, which had only built one prior system based on neutral atom qubits—a system that operated using only 100 qubits.