IBM has announced IBM Q, a major initiative to develop quantum computing that ranges from improvements to the IBM Experience, to the first commercially available universal quantum computer.

IBM Q is an industry-first initiative to build a commercially available universal quantum computers for business and science. While technologies like AI can find patterns buried in vast amounts of ...

IBM's two quantum computing platforms just took a leap forward in processing power. The company announced today that it has successfully built and tested its two most powerful quantum computers ...

Resources including the IBM Q Experience, a cloud-based platform for quantum experimentation and learning, and QISKit, an open source quantum software developer kit for real quantum computing ...

The company doubles down on its commitment to making a quantum-ready community by releasing new IBM Q Experience hardware, an open-source textbook, a university hackathon partner program, and more.

IBM has also committed to release a full SDK (Software Development Kit) on the IBM Quantum Experience in the first half of 2017 for users to build simple quantum applications and software programs.

IBM’s current 5-bit quantum computer is being offered through the public cloud as part of a program called the Quantum Experience, which will remain available for free.

A year ago, IBM launched the IBM Q experience by placing a five-qubit quantum computer on the cloud for anyone to freely access, and it most recently upgraded to a 16-qubit processor available for ...

IBM has announced plans to launch the world's first commercially available universal quantum computer as part of the IBM Q initiative.

With the IBM Q Experience, researchers can get access to quantum devices and simulators to get started now.

As for availability, IBM Q systems will be available by end of 2017 with upgrades in 2018. IBM is providing quantum computing test drives via its IBM Q experience.