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Quantum Computers Race for $5M Healthcare Prize at Oxford
Six quantum computing teams are competing for a $5 million prize to prove that today's noisy quantum machines can solve real healthcare problems classical computers cannot — a competition that has already transformed how the field approaches hybrid quantum-classical computing.
Key Takeaways
- Six finalist teams compete for a $5M Wellcome Leap prize to demonstrate quantum advantage in real healthcare problems classical computers cannot solve
- All six teams independently developed hybrid quantum-classical approaches, with classical algorithms improving as a byproduct of quantum hardware constraints
- Problems being attacked include light-activated cancer drug simulation, genomic diversity mapping, and cancer origin identification from tumor genome data
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