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Sasha Rogelberg

Meet the film school dropout who became a billionaire quantum computing CEO in days thanks to Nvidia

Christian Weedbrook standing in an office wearing a black jacket. (Credit: Galit Rodan—Bloomberg/Getty Images)

Christian Weedbrook, a film school dropout turned CEO of Xanadu Quantum Technologies, was minted a billionaire in a matter of days thanks to Nvidia endorsing quantum computing as the future of AI.

Last week, Nvidia announced Ising, a family of open-source quantum AI models promising to address major bottlenecks in quantum computing, particularly in calibration and error correction. By addressing barriers to growing quantum processing as part of AI infrastructure expansion, Nvidia gave credibility to quantum computing as the future of AI expansion.

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