A startup called Diffraqtion, spun out of MIT and the University of Maryland, has just raised $4.2 million (approximately £3.4 million / AU$6.3 million) to develop a revolutionary quantum camera.
Unlike traditional cameras, which simply record light that hits a sensor, quantum cameras count individual photons and use AI to extract up to 96% more information from every ray of light. In practical terms, it's like giving a camera superhuman vision – enabling it to capture detail that would normally require enormous, heavy lenses.
