Satya Nadella

because it's going to be so much easier to simulate atom by atom construction of these new quantum gates, essentially.

But in any case, to me, I think the next real thing is now that we have the fabrication technique, let us go build that first fault-tolerant quantum computer.

And that'll be the logical thing.

So I would say now I can say, oh, maybe 27, 28, 29, we will be able to actually build this, right?

So now that we have this one gate, can I put the thing into an integrated circuit and then actually put these integrated circuits into a real computer?

That I think is where the next logical step is.

See, one thing that I've been excited about is even in today's world, right?

Because we had this quantum program and we could say, hey, here's some APIs to it.

The breakthrough we had maybe two years ago was to sort of think of this HPC stack and AI stack and quantum together.

In fact, if you think about it, right?

AI is like an emulator of the simulator.

Quantum is like a simulator of nature.

What is quantum going to do?

By the way, quantum is not going to replace classical.

Quantum is great at what quantum can do.

Quantum is going to be fantastic for anything that is not data heavy, but it's got more exploration heavy in terms of the state space, which is it should be data light,

but exponential states that you want to explore.

And simulation is a great one, chemical, physics, what have you, biology.

So one of the things that we've started doing is really using AI as the emulation engine

But you can then train.