UK doubles down on its quantum bet – POLITICO

In contrast, Weidt said the U.K. has failed to move beyond small grants, arguing it needs to become a better customer of its “sovereign” companies or risk ceding “the great quantum computing foundations the U.K. has built over decades … to foreign players.” 

“We need to see now more ambition, and we need to see more pace,” Gerald Mullally, CEO of Oxford Quantum Circuits, said, stressing that the U.K. must “act at a level of scale that is competitive relative to what we’re seeing in other nations.”

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