Speaker: Sumit Kapur, CEO, Zapata Quantum
What does your company specialize in?
Sumit Kapur: Hi, I'm Sumit Kapur, CEO of Zapata Quantum, and I'm really excited to talk to you today about our partnership with QuEra to advance the era of fault-tolerant quantum computing. First, a little bit about Zapata. Zapata's mission is to accelerate the discovery, development, and deployment of practical quantum applications. We've had the privilege of doing some of the most foundational work in the space since 2018 when we spun out of Harvard's quantum lab. We've worked with folks like BP, BASF, Mitsubishi Chemical, DARPA, and others. The work we do really starts with something we call quantum application intelligence, where we help enterprises understand the answers to three questions: which applications matter, when are they going to matter, and how should they pursue them.
Why did you choose to partner with QuEra?
Sumit Kapur: Well, it was kind of a no-brainer, obviously. We share a lineage in that QuEra developed out of Harvard and MIT's quantum labs, but more than that, we also share a strong drive to move beyond technical milestones and actually advance towards measurable business value and transformational value creation. To that end, QuEera is not only a leader in neutral atom computing, but also has one of the most credible roadmaps towards FTQC, including plans to deliver a megaquop class system through AWS in 2028. That's impressive, not just because of the speed, because, but because they're focused on delivering availability via AWS. We believe, and I believe that QuEra does as well, that application development can't wait for fault tolerance. We need to build the applications today that will be ready when the hardware arrives. Customers should literally be designing and validating the applications. So that they're first in line to drive that transformational value creation. Obviously QuEra is not stopping there with the gigaflop in 2028 and 2029. We're extremely excited about what the future holds for QuEra and our partnership over that trajectory.
Together with QuEra, what benefits are you hoping to deliver to customers?
Sumit Kapur: Well, one thing we like to talk about is 3V applications. These are applications that are viable, valuable, and validated. And together with QuEra we'd like to work with customers to make sure that they can connect their use cases with computational solutions on neutral atom computing. Understand exactly when these will be valuable, exactly how to validate them, and exactly how to ensure that they're actually going to be viable applications. And having a roadmap that is well articulated and available to customers today in the form of computational solutions available via AWS really helps us deliver those 3V applications.
