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title: 'IBM Quantum Summit 2023: Major Announcements on Quantum Utility'
subtitle: 'Thrilled by hardware and software advances toward quantum utility'
summary: 'Honored by major announcements from IBM Quantum Summit 2023, including IBM Heron chip with 3-5x performance improvement, 1,121-processor Condor system, operational Quantum System Two, Qiskit 1.0 release, Quantum Serverless beta, and AI integration for automated code development and enhanced transpiler tools.'
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- juancb
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- IBM Quantum
- Quantum Summit
- IBM Heron
- IBM Condor
- Quantum System Two
- Qiskit 1.0
- Quantum Serverless
- AI for Quantum
- Quantum Computing
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- Quantum Computing
- Artificial Intelligence
- Events
date: "2023-12-07T00:00:00Z"
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I am thrilled and honored by the major announcements from IBM Quantum Summit 2023! 🚀

Key highlights advancing quantum utility:

**Hardware Breakthroughs:**
- IBM Heron chip: 3-5x device performance improvement over Eagle
- IBM Condor: 1,121-processor system demonstrating scaling solutions
- IBM Quantum System Two: Now operational at Yorktown Lab with 3 Heron processors

**Software Innovations:**
- Qiskit 1.0: Scheduled February release with improvements in circuit construction, compilation times, and memory consumption
- Quantum Serverless: Beta deployment for scaled pattern execution
- AI Integration: Automated code development via watsonx and enhanced transpiler tools

**Vision:** Extended roadmap through 2033

Academic and industry partners from University of Tokyo, Argonne National Lab, BasQ, and others showcased utility-scale quantum applications.

This represents tremendous progress toward realizing the full potential of quantum computing!

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**Context:** In response to [Jay Gambetta's post about IBM Quantum Summit 2023 announcements](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/juancb_i-am-thrilled-and-honored-by-the-major-announcements-activity-7138330719772205056-0TG9), highlighting hardware and software advances toward quantum utility.

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*Originally shared on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/juancb_i-am-thrilled-and-honored-by-the-major-announcements-activity-7138330719772205056-0TG9) on December 7, 2023 - 6 reactions, 0 comments as of 11/12/2025*