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[SAN FRANCISCO] The US on Wednesday said it will spend US$625 million over the next five years on centers to research artificial intelligence and quantum computing.<\/p>\n
An additional US$340 million will be contributed by the private sector and academic institutions, bringing the total planned investment close to US$1 billion, according to a release by the Department of Energy.<\/p>\n
The money will go to establishing a dozen research institutes focused on artificial intelligence and quantum computing, the DOE said.<\/p>\n
\"These institutes will be world-class hubs for accelerating American innovation and building the 21st century American workforce,\" said US Chief Technology Officer Michael Kratsios.<\/p>\n
The US invests more than US$500 million annually in AI research and is building on that effort to \"advance American competitiveness,\" according to National Science Foundation director Sethuraman Panchanathan.<\/p>\n
A Google official warned in January that in a technological race to the future, China could pour \"enormous resources\" into developing super-computers with quantum technology.<\/p>\n
US officials and scientists in July began laying the groundwork for a more secure \"virtually unhackable\" internet based on quantum computing technology.<\/p>\n
During a presentation at that time, DOE officials issued a report laying out a strategy for the development of a national quantum internet, using laws of quantum mechanics to transmit information more securely than on existing networks.<\/p>\n
The agency is working with universities and industry researchers with the aim of creating a prototype within a decade.<\/p>\n
\"The foundation of quantum networks rests on our ability to precisely synthesize and manipulate matter at the atomic scale, including the control of single photons,\" David Awschalom, a University of Chicago professor and senior scientist at Argonne National Laboratory, said at the time.<\/p>\n
Not included in the US announcement Wednesday were Google and Honeywell, which have claimed strides in quantum computing research.<\/p>\n
US manufacturing and technology group Honeywell earlier this year said it would bring to market \"the world's most powerful quantum computer\" aimed at tackling complex scientific and business challenges.<\/p>\n
The company said it had achieved a breakthrough in quantum computing, which uses subatomic particles to speed up processing.<\/p>\n
Quantum computing is based on the use of quantum bits or qubits, which can perform trillions of calculations per second and in some cases outperform the fastest traditional supercomputers.<\/p>\n
The Honeywell announcement came after Google claimed last year to have achieved \"quantum supremacy\" by developing a machine outperforming the world's fastest supercomputers.<\/p>\n
Google said that its Sycamore quantum processor solved a computing problem within 200 seconds which would have taken 10,000 years on a traditional computer.<\/p>\n
IBM runs its own quantum computing program.<\/p>\n
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