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Get up to speed on Open Quantum before tomorrow’s qBitTensor Labs Live ('QBTLL'), where @BeyondNISQ and @qBitTensorLabs will be detailing how decentralized quantum computing is [affordably] coming to life on Bittensor!
We’ve put together a quick series of visuals to walk you through what Open Quantum is, its key features, how it fits into $TAO, and who it’s built for.
Quantum is going open, help us share it!
Improving user experience on our platform is important to us.
We're improving job preparation workflows to identify semantic errors before workloads are sent to quantum hardware, saving users time and making experimentation smoother.
Small improvements -> Massive time saved for developers
#OpenQuantum #SN48
🚨Open Quantum Update🚨
Half-price quantum compute is live.
Today we're opening up a new pricing tier on Open Quantum that gives researchers, developers, and teams access to quantum hardware from @IonQ_Inc, @rigetti, IQM, and @AQT_GmbH at 50% of the cost of going direct.
Same QPUs. Same results. One unified API. Half the price.
Every new Open Quantum user receives $50 in free compute to get started experimenting across our growing hardware ecosystem. No credit card needed.
Once those credits are used, users can choose between private workloads at standard retail pricing or public workloads at half cost, making quantum experimentation even more accessible than ever.
We built Open Quantum to remove the friction from quantum computing: no vendor-specific accounts, no complex procurement, no long queues. Now we're removing the cost barrier, too.
Whether you're a research lab, a student, or an enterprise team evaluating quantum — the barrier just got a lot lower.
Get started → https://t.co/TBiNPFzZXb
#OpenQuantum #QuantumInnovation #QuantumRings
Rigetti’s new 108-qubit Cepheus processor is now live on Open Quantum, bringing another new and exciting quantum system onto our platform!
Miners and users can now run workloads on the newest Rigetti hardware directly through the Open Quantum platform, with free access to Cepheus-1-108Q available to new users.
Built for larger circuits and more advanced experimentation, Cepheus now gives users increased accuracy, efficiency, and compute capacity.
Use your $50 free in quantum compute on Open Quantum to access Cepheus-1-108Q today!
https://t.co/JUTtkK58NX
#OpenQuantum #Rigetti #QuantumComputing
The quantum bears really did not want this one coming out.
From our streaming platform going down, to our recordings coming out corrupted, this was the episode that shouldn't have been.
But against all odds, here is QBTLL #14.
Thank you all for your patience and we hope you're as excited about these updates as we are! 🩵
https://t.co/lMkqm4BPe3
qBitTensor Labs Live #14
Bob and the team will be back this Thursday May 21 at 16:00 UTC! We'll have some exciting updates on #SN63 and #SN48, including insights into the rollout of @EnigmaSN63 and a look at the new revenue plan for @QuantumSN48.
We're excited to be back with you all this week and as always, please leave any questions for the livestream in the comments or on Discord!
See you all soon 🩵
A huge step forward for quantum error correction!
In this recent paper, researchers propose a theoretical construction showing that a reliable, self-correcting quantum memory in 3D could actually exist, something we previously thought to be impossible.
The theory is starting to come together. The next step is testing it in real physical systems.
The post-NISQ era keeps getting closer by the day!
If you haven't seen it already, make sure to check out the latest episode of Revenue Search, featuring @BeyondNISQ and #SN48.
We had a great conversation with @SiamKidd and @MarkCreaser around the vision of Quantum Compute and how we're using the subnet to generate revenue.
As Siam put it: SN48 is the “Airbnb for quantum computers.”
A simple analogy, but it captures the core idea.
Quantum compute today is scarce, expensive, and underutilized.
SN48 connects that supply to real demand, routing user workloads to quantum hardware, making these powerful resources available to anyone.
With new QPUs onboarded regularly and a rapidly growing userbase, we've begun exploring some new ideas for growing revenue.
Give it a watch to hear how!
Fantastic video, thanks for shining your spotlight on Open Quantum!
Accessing the right tools is a huge problem in quantum research right now and we're thrilled to be able to work towards decentralizing these resources through Open Quantum and #SN48 -- All made possible through @Bittensor!
Careful though-- physical qubits ≠ progress.
Actual progress is 🔥
The QPU industry's actual failure isn't the trajectory it's the access model. Research can't get QPU time without piles of money. (That's what @QuantumSN48 fixes on @bittensor).
For the geeks-- a few important notes:
→ Dec 2023, IBM Condor hit 1,121 qubits. Missing from your chart. Same summit, IBM also announced Heron at 156 qubits with way better fidelity. Condor was a feasibility milestone, not a production target.
Translation: industry decided quality is the new game. The whole industry pivoted that quarter. Charting physical qubits after that is charting a metric the field deliberately abandoned. IBM
→ Dec 2024, Google Willow crossed below-threshold error correction. First time in the field's 30-year history. A 101-qubit distance-7 code with logical error suppressed by Λ = 2.14 per code-distance increase, exceeding the best physical qubit's lifetime by 2.4x.
Translation: Adding qubits now makes errors better, not worse. This is a key inflection.
→ Microsoft + Quantinuum: 12 logical qubits running with circuit error rate of 0.0011 vs. 0.024 for physical — 22x improvement.
Translation: Logical isn't theoretical anymore.
→ Oxford Ionics: 99.99% two-qubit gate fidelity in 2025. Quantinuum: 99.9%+.
Why is this important: Its squarely in the regime where error correction actually works.
→ RSA factoring requirement: dropped from 20 million qubits to ~1 million in 2025.
Goalpost moved 20x closer in a single paper.
→ Quantinuum Helios shipped commercially Nov 2025 — 98 fully-connected trapped-ion qubits, >99.9% fidelity, with a new real-time control engine.
This is production hardware, today.
Right metrics to watch are logical qubits and gate fidelity. Both are on a tear.
Charting physical qubit count past 2023 is like charting CPU GHz past 2005 (measuring the metric the industry deliberately stopped optimizing)
Someone just won 1 BTC for breaking a piece of Bitcoin's underlying encryption on a public quantum computer.
Sept 2025: 6 bits broken on IBM hardware.
April 2026: Giancarlo Lelli broke 15 bits on rented cloud QPUs and claimed Project Eleven's @projecteleven Q-Day bounty.
512x in seven months. Bitcoin uses 256-bit secp256k1 so this isn't an immediate threat but the gap between theory and practice is closing faster than any major chain is moving.
Most chains are waiting for Q-Day. Bittensor is already running the infrastructure to meet it.
@QuantumSN48 is the execution layer — a platform routing quantum jobs to real QPUs.
@EnigmaSN63 is the research layer, in which miners stress-test quantum proofs and circuit constructions, and the team currently pressure-tests Bittensor primitives like treasury wallets in the same environment.
Worth holding in your head: $TAO runs on Substrate with sr25519. Different scheme than Bitcoin's ECDSA, but the same elliptic curve discrete logarithm problem underneath. Same Shor's exposure. No public post-quantum roadmap from the foundation yet.
https://t.co/3Udb6Bijbg
Convince me that #bittensor and every cryptography out there doesn't need a public post-quantum roadmap.
- τ
@IonQ_Inc's Forte Enterprise is LIVE on #OpenQuantum!
With the same trapped-ion technology as the original Forte device, the Forte Enterprise is optimized to be easily purchased and operated by major enterprises.
We're thrilled to be able to offer the Forte Enterprise on our platform, bringing additional choices and reduced downtime to our userbase.
Start running on the Forte Enterprise for FREE today at:
https://t.co/APjLG0upqK
We're also announcing the retirement of @rigetti's Ankaa-3, which will soon be replaced by their new Cepheus-1-108Q.
Utilizing the same Ankaa architecture, Cepheus scales up from Ankaa-3's 84 superconducting qubits to 108!
Keep an eye out for Cepheus's release soon!
#SN48 #QuantumCompute $IONQ
For those of you that missed it, IonQ just achieved another major milestone.
With photonic interconnects enabling long-distance entanglement, quantum computers can now be connected, enabling large-scale computations that use qubits from each device.
This method of distributed computing pushes the boundaries of what's possible with today's quantum computers and opens new avenues towards fully fault-tolerant devices.
Q-Day is just around the corner.
Are you ready for it?
#OpenQuantum $IonQ
A foundational technical milestone: In a joint project with @AFResearchLab we’ve photonically interconnected two independent trapped-ion quantum systems - the first demonstration of connected, commercial quantum computers.
Learn more: https://t.co/rqVQUT9OT2
#WorldQuantumDay
Thank you for the shout out @briankeating! We are honored.
This is what democratizing quantum computing actually looks like.
→ 10's of millions of circuits executed.
→ 10's of billions of gate operations completed.
→ Hundreds of universities and institutions.
Quantum computing has been in the hands of the elite few for too long. What Quantum computing needs is more innovators like you!
Brian's undergraduates (including a freshman) went from never touching a qubit to running Shor's algorithm on their MacBooks in six weeks. That's the pipeline the field has been waiting for.
Quantum Rings is here to open that door:
// Quantum 101 //
Learn how to build quantum circuits in a free 14-episode course taught by an MIT PhD student. Free forever.
→ https://t.co/akG9JucIWr
// Quantum Rings Simulator //
Start running hundreds of qubits and millions of gate operations on your laptop now-- free for academic and personal use-- no wait times.
→ https://t.co/TYAkl2GHj5
// Open Quantum //
Run on real commercially available quantum hardware from multiple vendors with $50 in credits every 90 days, through our partnership with @QuantumSN48 by @qBitTensorLabs, and the broader @bittensor ecosystem.
→ https://t.co/7n7eUAy3cl
qBitTensor Labs Live #13
We're excited to be back this week with another action-packed live for QBTLL #13 this Thursday 4/23!
We have some major development updates for both @EnigmaSN63 and @QuantumSN48 and will take a deeper look into what's changing with the socials and our marketing strategy.
We'll also have some discussion around recent events in the broader Bittensor ecosystem and of course, check in with the community!
Make sure to tune in, you won't want to miss it.
Please leave any questions for our Q&A in the comments or on Discord. We hope to see you on Thursday! 🩵