Quantum computing now mature enough to optimize a grocery store

Quantum computing may be in its nascent days still, but there are a lot of serious players working hard to develop stable and useful quantum chips. Instead of your boring old binary bits, these new chips use qubits, which can either represent a 1 or a 0, or thanks to the quantum weirdness of superposition - both at the same time. Just last year Google announced that it had performed a quantum computation that is infeasible on any classical computer. That made some wonder if the golden grail of quantum supremacy is just around the corner.  So is it? Answering that question is complicated. Much like a qubit in superposition, it's sort of yes and no at the same time. But we've seen a lot of advancements in quantum computing lately and here to talk about them is my colleague and research director at Info-Tech Research Group, Adib Ghubril. He discusses quantum updates such as Xanadu's Quantum as a Service, D-Wave's 5,000 qubit system and customer case studies, and IBM's quantum chip roadmap.