I think we will get some “break throughs” in Quantum Computing that Google execs will assure us makes their company worth five trillion dollars.

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    Google gets quantum computers running with like 1000 qubits on a machine you can rent in a cloud datacenter, which isn’t enough to do anything important, but they make some excuse to bundle it with a bunch of tensor cores or whatever other chips they’re not renting enough of. The other big tech companies release “quantum” products that are just whatever spare compute they have lying around, without any actual quantum computing, which is fine, because nobody actually has a use for quantum computers. Google responds to this with a second “true quantum” cloud offering that doesn’t contain the actual quantum computing resources, but has more buzzwords.