Quantum computing now mature enough to optimize a grocery store

Quantum computing may be in its nascent days still, but there are
a lot of serious players working hard to develop stable and
useful quantum chips. Instead of your boring old binary bits,
these new chips use qubits, which can either represent a 1 or a
0, or thanks to the quantum weirdness of superposition - both at
the same time. Just last year Google announced that it had
performed a quantum computation that is infeasible on any
classical computer. That made some wonder if the golden grail of
quantum supremacy is just around the corner. 


So is it? Answering that question is complicated. Much like a
qubit in superposition, it's sort of yes and no at the same time.
But we've seen a lot of advancements in quantum computing lately
and here to talk about them is my colleague and research director
at Info-Tech Research Group, Adib Ghubril. He discusses quantum
updates such as Xanadu's Quantum as a Service, D-Wave's 5,000
qubit system and customer case studies, and IBM's quantum chip
roadmap.