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Beyond the Qubit

CCO Yuval Boger Quera: Summary deep dive interview

05 Dec 2025

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Neutral atoms just went from dark horse → workhorse.And it changes everything.This week on Beyond the Qubit, I sat down with Juval Boger, CCO of QuEra, and he said something that hit me hard:“Quantum computers today are almost useless… butthat’s exactly why now is the most exciting time.”  Here’swhat I learned 👇1. Neutral atoms might be the first scalable path to real quantum advantageMost qubits aremanufactured.Neutral atoms are perfect by nature.No fabricationdefects.No calibrationbattles.No cryogenic fridgesthe size of a room.A laser tweezertraps each atom.A laser moves itwherever you want.A single laser pulsecan operate on multiple qubits in parallel. This means:It’s wild.2. Customer-first thinking is QuEra’s secret weaponBefore we eventouched physics, Juval talked about… listening.Not to qubits.To customers.  It’s rare indeep-tech.And it’s exactly whyQuEra builds things people actually use:This is no longeracademic curiosity.3. Why QuEra’s proximity to MIT & Harvard mattersFour founders camefrom Harvard and MIT.Two are still deeply involved.And the labs areliterally a bike ride away.  This creates aflywheel: That speed ofiteration is something other modalities can’t replicate.4. The big picture: error correction & scaleJuval gave a simpleanalogy:If you’re shoutingyour credit card number in the wind,you repeat eachdigit multiple times so it arrives correctly.Logical qubits workthe same way.And neutral atomsallow parallel operations between allphysical qubits in a logical block, something static qubits cannot do.  This dramaticallyaccelerates progress toward error-corrected systems.5. The most important signal?“We’ve moved fromscientific challenges → engineering challenges.”That’s how you knowa technology is about to break out. Transcript summaryQuEra My takeawayNeutral atoms are nolonger the “dark horse.”They’re becoming theworkhorse of quantum computing.And QuEra is notbuilding a B-2 bomber (beautiful but rare).They’re building theAirbus A350 of quantum:usable, scalable,and built for the real world.  If you want tounderstand how quantum will scale fromhundreds to tens of thousands of qubits, this episode is a must-listen.#QuantumComputing,#QuantumTechnology #DeepTech, #BeyondTheQubit, #QuEra, #NeutralAtoms#QuantumHardware,#FutureOfComputing, #QuantumAdvantage, #RydbergAtoms, #TechInnovation#ScienceAndTechnology,#FrontierTech, #MIT, #Harvard, #Podcast @Yuval Boger@QuEra  📌 Disclaimer: This post is shared on a personal basis and I do notrepresent any company

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