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QUERA AND AWS SET COURSE FOR FAULT- TOLERANT QUANTUM COMPUTING WITH LIBRA LAUNCH IN 2028

QuEra Computing and AWS are expanding their partnership to bring fault-tolerant quantum computing to Amazon Braket in 2028- marking a significant milestone in the industry’ s push towards commercially useful quantum applications.

Quantum computing has spent years promising revolutionary advances in science, industry and computing, yet much of the sector has remained focused on proving that quantum hardware can work at scale. The next challenge is far more ambitious: building systems capable of performing useful computations reliably enough to solve realworld problems.

QuEra Computing believes that transition is now within sight.
The company has unveiled Libra, its first fault-tolerant quantum computer, which is scheduled to become available through Amazon Braket in 2028 as part of an expanded multi-year strategic collaboration with Amazon Web Services( AWS). The announcement signals what both organisations describe as a move beyond laboratory demonstrations towards practical quantum computing infrastructure that could eventually support scientific discovery and commercial workloads.
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