aiqbench analysis

The article compares five public quantum computing firms by qubit modality: trapped ions (IonQ, Quantinuum), neutral atoms (Infleqtion), superconducting (Rigetti), and annealing plus gate-model (D-Wave). Its most useful point for technical readers is that these firms now differ as much in business strategy as in hardware, with IonQ moving into non-quantum businesses and Infleqtion pairing computing with sensing. The piece is written by Infleqtion, one of the companies compared, so its framing deserves independent checking. The authors also concede that none of the five has yet reached profitability or demonstrated fault-tolerant quantum computing.