Microsoft Azure to Add Rigetti as Another Hardware Provider

Rigetti computing announced that they will be integrating their quantum computer with the Microsoft Azure Cloud service making them the fourth company that will have a quantum computer accessible through Microsoft Azure. They will join IonQ, Honeywell (now Quantinuum), and Quantum Circuits Inc. (QCI). IonQ and Honeywell's machines are based on ion trap technology while QCI and Rigetti's use superconducting qubits. Although Rigetti declined to say which of their machines would be available on Microsoft Azure, they did indicate that it will be the largest quantum computer accessible, and that integration will be complete and the machine available to users in the first quarter of 2022. Rigetti also has a partnership with Amazon AWS and their machine is also available on that cloud service as well as Rigetti's own cloud service. You can view Rigetti's press release announcing this development here and a blog post from Microsoft here.

December 6, 2021