Microsoft and consultancy KPMG are working to solve common business problems by using quantum-inspired optimization via the Azure Quantum cloud service.
Powerful quantum computers capable of solving tricky computing problems (and maybe undermining today’s encryption algorithms) are still years away, but progress is being made by Google, IBM, Honeywell Quantum and Cambridge Quantum, and many other efforts.
Microsoft and KPMG are teaming up to solve quantum optimization through software by using emulation of quantum computing on today’s hardware in the Azure cloud. KPMG calls it Quantum-Inspired Optimization or QIO.
