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Code by day, beer by night ✨ Yesterday’s OSS Beer brought together 50+ infra & open-source builders for great convos, good vibes, beers & pizzas :) Shoutout to everyone who came out, and hugs to Anh-Tho, Antoine & Ugo for co-organising 🫶 #opensource #infra #builders

💥 Welinq introduces QDrive: the world’s most efficient quantum memory product We’re very proud to launch QDrive, the first high-performance commercial quantum memory designed for quantum data centers and quantum communication networks. This marks a pivotal advancement in building the infrastructure needed for scalable quantum computing. ⛓️💥 With QDrive, quantum processors can work together efficiently, unlocking new possibilities through quantum networking. It’s a key and game-changing element, bringing Welinq’s full-stack and multi-platform solution to the forefront of the quantum industry by combining cutting-edge hardware and software to interconnect quantum processors.  📽 Watch our launch video directly in this post & on YouTube: https://lnkd.in/ekQESrH7 📢 Read the official press release: https://lnkd.in/eG4sk5Ds For technical details, please feel free to comment on this post, message us here on LinkedIn, or reach out at info@welinq.fr to receive our technical blog post before its official release. This is only the beginning! Quantonation, Runa Capital, Sorbonne Université, CNRS Innovation, Région Île-de-France, Christophe Jurczak, Dmitry Galperin, Francesco Ricciuti, Eléonore de Rose, Christopher Spillane © AGENCE OBLIQUE | Alexis Anice for the pictures, Alexandre Boucher for the flat design, eliumstudio and Thomas Droze for the 3D rendering #QuantumComputing #QuantumNetworking #QuantumMemory #QuantumDataCenters #QDrive #Welinq

🚀 OSS Beer #6 is happening next week! Lago, Probo, Hexa & Runa Capital are bringing open-source builders & founders for a “git” together 🍻🍕 📅 March 19 🍕 Beer & Pizza 💻 All things OSS Join us for great convos, good vibes & a cold one (rsvp link in comments 🔗👀) Anh-Tho, Raffi, Antoine, Bryan, Ugo, Faustine, Konstantin, Christopher

NEW: AI talent crisis — How European startups are looking to outcompete rivals for tech workers --- Europe’s AI startups are being forced to ramp up creative recruiting tactics as they sweat over a talent shortage among AI workers and try to outcompete each other for the best hires. Some of the continent’s buzziest AI startups tell Sifted there are more roles being created at tech companies in Europe than there are people to fill them — and that competition is getting fiercer. At the core of the increased demand for AI talent is record investor money flowing into the sector and US players such as OpenAI and Anthropic hiring on European shores. The emergence of AI agents as the new hype sector in VC is also pushing more companies into the race to recruit AI-specialised software engineers. An outflux of European AI talent to the US is narrowing the pool further. “Many well capitalised AI companies in the US are hiring talented PhDs and technical engineers from European countries, who then later relocate to the US,” says Denny G., San Francisco-based investor at Runa Capital. Now execs at AI darlings, including ElevenLabs, Synthesia and Nscale, say they’re stepping efforts to get closer to star researchers from Europe’s top institutions, upskilling engineers internally and even looking to lean on AI agents to pick up some of the slack as the nascent tech develops. “AI talent has never been in higher demand, and US Big Tech expanding into Europe has only intensified competition,” says Daniel Bathurst, chief product officer at AI data centre startup Nscale. Full story: https://lnkd.in/ePCinwBE

🤝 Welinq & QphoX Partner to Interconnect Superconducting QPUs Recent announcements about superconducting quantum processors show that this long-standing contender represents one of the most promising platforms for quantum computing. The next step is to network these chips into larger systems to scale beyond single, monolithic chips. 🖇️ We are delighted to announce that Welinq and QphoX are partnering to develop optical quantum interconnects, allowing superconducting QPUs to communicate efficiently. This collaboration combines QphoX’s quantum transduction expertise with Welinq’s full-stack quantum links, creating a seamless bridge between superconducting QPUs. This partnership is a major milestone for Welinq. It extends our quantum interconnect technology beyond neutral-atom and photonic QPUs, reinforcing our full-stack and multi-platform approach. Find more information in the Press Release below: 👇 https://lnkd.in/edAcbiZ7 Quantonation, Runa Capital, Christophe Jurczak, Olivier Tonneau, Dmitry Galperin, Francesco Ricciuti, Simon Groeblacher, Robert Stockill, Ceren Spuyman, Tom Darras, Eleni Diamanti, Julien Laurat, Eléonore de Rose, Christopher Spillane

We are hiring! Join our worldclass team to develop the next generation of universal #RISCVeverywhere microprocessors. https://lnkd.in/eY_D7px2

NEW: AI agents could be the next tech hype bubble to burst, say VCs: ‘It’s Web3 and Metaverse mania again’ —— As the hype surrounding AI agent startups continues to grow, VCs are preparing for a bust cycle that could wipe out many of the sector’s darlings. Investors warn that the cycle is building because some companies developing agentic AI — large language model-based applications to automate tasks without a human in the loop — are raising money at inflated valuations and for products that might not live up to expectations. Six weeks into 2025, European startups developing AI agents have picked up €481m, according to Sifted data — more than a quarter of the funds raised by such startups across 2024. Many expect investment to go up and to the right over the next year. While investors scramble to back winners in the space, there’s an air of caution hanging over the sector. The startup world is no stranger to a hype bubble bursting on a new, and potentially transformative, technology, with recent examples in the swift rise and fall of a number of Web3 and metaverse startups. “There is a significant risk of a boom-bust cycle with AI agent startups,” says Denny G., associate at Runa Capital. “This era is no different than the cloud, mobile and internet eras.” Full story: https://lnkd.in/eE37Dmpb

While so many voices are pitting AI, classical computing and quantum against one another or say they cannot coexist, at Pasqal we are in for the long game and see the multiple ways these technologies are complementary 🤝 🔗 Check out the open letter our Co-CEO and Co-founder, Georges-Olivier REYMOND, shared with the editors of Financial Times! - https://archive.is/6NYiQ 🎤 "Writing off quantum today would be like dismissing the internet in 1993. It’s not a sprint, it’s the long game. Deep tech works first, then scales. Now it’s delivering and deployment is next." 💬 Share with us your comments! #QuantumComputing #ft #QuantumAI #collaboration