New Devices Push Quantum and AI Into the Future

Again, please don't ask us to explain quantum.

STARTER STATS

• The quantum market is rapidly growing, and is expected to expand from ~$1.4B in 2024 to over $20 billion by 2030

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A Brock University research group is developing ultra-small devices to help push the frontiers of both quantum and generative AI. The chips are made of gold, semiconductors, and quantum dots at the nanometre scale. The devices are extremely sensitive, and their superpowers include detecting light in the dark (perceiving light beyond human vision) and responding in trillionths of a second.

The resulting products address a key bottleneck: bridging quantum-level sensing and mainstream computing/AI hardware. Eventually, the devices will be suitable for fibre-optic networks, autonomous vehicles’ night-vision systems, or GPUs powering AI models.

“With this fundamental science research, we can develop many different novel technologies and answer unknown questions in the fundamental fields of photophysics, physical chemistry and electrical engineering, then translated into the fields of quantum technology and generative artificial intelligence."

— Dr. Jianbo Gao

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