Google's new quantum company "sandbox" will be split, and the little-known quantum team "sandbox" of Google's parent company is preparing to split. Google's new quantum company sandbox, originally founded by Google co-founder sergey brin, will be split up.
Google's new quantum company "Sandbox" will be split on June 1 month 65438+ 10/0/4. According to Business Insider, Google's parent company Alphabet will spin off its quantum technology team sandbox and make it an independent quantum technology company. It is reported that Sandbox was founded by Google co-founder Sergey Brin and is now led by Jack Hidary. With the break-up of the sandbox, the organizational structure of the new company should change.
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Sandbox is regarded as a mysterious quantum computing team under Google, because it was not exposed until 2020. It is reported that the sandbox team works in Building X, and its members are all former employees of Google X Innovation Lab. The team focuses on developing quantum computing software and experimental quantum projects. As Hiddari said, sandbox is "an enterprise solution at the crossroads of quantum physics and artificial intelligence."
Google, owned by Alphabet, has made small achievements in quantum computers. 20 19 claims that its quantum computer has achieved "quantum hegemony", but it has not been recognized by the academic community.
Quantum computer is an extremely complicated research. At present, various countries and companies are still in the exploration stage. Last June, 5438+065438+ 10, IBM also claimed that its quantum computer "Eagle" would achieve "quantum hegemony" in 2023, but it remains to be seen who will take the lead in realizing it.
Google's new quantum company "sandbox" will be split. 2. The little-known quantum team Sandbox of Google's parent company Alphabet is preparing to split up.
The sandbox team is currently working in the Google X lunar incubator.
The sandbox was founded by Google co-founder sergey brin and is now led by Jack Hidary.
According to the report on the Business Insider website, the secret quantum technology team of Google's parent company Alphabet is preparing to split into an independent company.
Sandbox, commonly known as Sandbox@Alphabet, was originally founded by Google co-founder Sergey Brin and led by entrepreneur Jack Hidary, which lasted for more than four years.
Unlike Google's quantum computing team (Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab) in Santa Barbara, the sandbox focuses on software and more experimental quantum projects. It is located in Google's moon landing incubator and is called X, although it is essentially an independent unit.
According to two people familiar with the matter, Hidary now plans to split Sandbox into an independent company. They asked for anonymity when discussing private plans.
202 1 1 1, Hidary has signed the California regulatory document and applied for the establishment of a company named SB Technologies, Inc., which will conduct business in the state and is headquartered in San Francisco. In recent weeks, a website related to the company, sandboxquantum.com, appeared, but as of June 65438+ 10/0, the website had no information.
According to sources, the separation of sandbox and Alphabet will allow Hidary to accelerate its actions without constraints and raise funds from investors outside Google.
An Alphabet spokesperson declined to comment. Hidary didn't respond to requests for comment.
Jack Hiddari
Google has been studying quantum computers for years. These machines use completely different technologies from traditional computers. Existing systems rely on bits representing 1 and 0 to complete the task. In contrast, qubits broaden the boundaries of physics by simultaneously expressing 1 and 0. In theory, many qubits working together will create a computer whose computing speed will increase exponentially.
Wired first reported the existence of the second quantum team of Alphabet in early 2020, although it was not named at that time. A spokesman previously told Business Insider that although the sandbox works outside the X building and has a large number of former employees of Google X's moon landing lab, it is not a part of X, but according to two people familiar with the matter, Hidary still reports to Astro Teller, the director of X.
Before Hiddari came to power, this team was called "Sergey's sandbox". According to a source, eric schmidt, former CEO of Google, continues to provide advice to the sandbox team.
Sergey Brin
In an interview in June, 200211,Hidary said that the sandbox team focused on the enterprise solution of "the intersection of quantum physics and artificial intelligence". This includes using quantum technology to improve the accuracy of health sensors. According to VentureBeat's previous report, the team also used Google's Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) to simulate the quantum computing workload.
It is unclear whether Hidary (an expert in computer science, machine learning and quantum computing) will continue to cooperate with Google after the sandbox is split, or whether Alphabet will have any shares in the development of the sandbox team.
However, the search giant has made a lot of bets on quantum elsewhere. In 20021year, Google launched a new quantum artificial intelligence park in Santa Barbara, and expressed the hope to build a practical quantum computer within ten years.
Other technology giants are also increasing their investment in quantum. Amazon launched quantum cloud service on AWS. In 20021year, Microsoft's venture capital company participated in the $450 million investment of the startup PsiQuantum. In a report in February 2002165438, CB Insights emphasized that cloud is becoming a key field of quantum competition among technology giants.
Google's new quantum company "sandbox" will be split. According to Business Insider, the quantum technology team sandbox will be spun off from Google's parent company Alphabet and become an independent quantum technology company.
Sandbox, translated as "sandbox" in Chinese, is a computer technical term. In network security, "sandbox" refers to a tool to test the behavior of untrusted files or applications in an isolated environment.
The sandbox team was founded by Google co-founder Sergey Brin and led by entrepreneur Jack Hidary, which lasted for more than four years.
Unlike Google's quantum computing team in Santa Barbara, sandbox, as the second mysterious quantum computing team of Alphabet, focuses on developing quantum computing software and experimental quantum projects.
According to anonymous sources, Hiddari now plans to split Sandbox into an independent company.
As early as 202 1, 1 1, he signed the California regulatory document for a SB technology company (SB Technology Company), which will conduct business in California and is headquartered in San Francisco. In recent weeks, a website related to this company's sandboxquantum.com has appeared. But as of now, the website has not released any information.
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According to sources, stripping the sandbox from Alphabet can give Hiddari more freedom, enabling him to act faster and raise funds other than Google. "Hiddari wants to do his own thing." The source said, "His spirit is never to delay."
For many years, Google, owned by Alphabet, has been studying quantum computers, and its technology is completely different from traditional computers. The world of traditional computers consists of 1 and 0. And a qubit can represent 1 and 0 at the same time, which breaks through the boundary of physics. Theoretically, if many qubits work together, you can create a computer whose operation speed increases exponentially. In 20 19, Google claimed that its quantum computer had achieved "quantum hegemony", but it caused more controversy and was not recognized by the academic community.
In early 2020, Wired magazine first reported the existence of a second quantum team in Alphabet. At that time, the team did not disclose its name. It was not until 202 1 that foreign media reported more about the inside story of the sandbox team.
According to sources, although the team works in Building X and its members are former employees of Google X Innovation Lab, the sandbox is not part of the lab. The lab is dedicated to incubating new technologies that are "crazy and difficult to achieve", including driverless cars and delivery drones.
Hiddari once said in an interview that Sandbox focuses on "enterprise solutions at the crossroads of quantum physics and artificial intelligence". For example, quantum technology is used to improve the accuracy of health sensors.
At present, Alphabet has not disclosed whether it will own any shares of Quantum Company, nor whether Hidari will continue to participate in Google's work.