What’s Your Problem?
Ben Bloom is the co-founder and CEO of Atom Computing, a company building quantum computers out of individual atoms. Ben’s problem is this: How do you build a quantum computer that is actually useful for everything from discovering new medicines to building better batteries?
In this episode, Ben explains:
- The practical applications of quantum computers
- Atom Computing’s approach using individual neutral atoms as qubits
- The key engineering challenge of scaling while maintaining accuracy
- The playbook for commercializing quantum computing
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