Davos 2025: Quantum computers solve problems faster

CGTN Europe's Juliet Mann spoke with CEO of Pasqal, Georges-Olivier Reymond.

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00:00DING also zoned in on quantum computing, but as Georges-Olivier Raymond from Pascal, which is a

00:06quantum computing company, said it's going to be some time before all of that plays out.

00:13The question of timelines is a very good one, and there are different timelines.

00:17Some people talk about 10 to 15 years, as we take from NVIDIA CEOs a couple days ago,

00:25and there are earlier solutions that we are developing at Pascal.

00:29And we are convinced that we will see the first impact on the business in two to three years,

00:34starting competing against classical technologies and bringing value to end users,

00:39because we have a different technology, a different way of using that.

00:43And it will impact all the sectors, starting maybe with the energy sector. We have a lot of

00:49cases, you know, optimizing the electrical grid, thinking of charging electrical vehicles,

00:55new materials for batteries, things like that, and in the financial sector as well.

01:01And also drug discovery. I mean, we developed a very great proof of concept with a French partner

01:08named Qubit Pharmaceutical, and we developed a new tool to predict the reactivity of talking

01:12sites of protein. You mentioned energy and, you know,

01:16safeguarding the planet, encouraging progress on nature, on climate goals through innovation,

01:21and it's also very much a focus here at Davos. It's no surprise since, you know, last year was

01:26the hottest on record, and we've had these extreme weather events that have been causing

01:31devastation around the world. Can quantum computing help that?

01:35Yes, absolutely. And quantum computers are also part of the solution.

01:39First of all, because they can help developing new solutions. As an example, with BISF,

01:44we work on predicting weather pattern, okay? We can work also on, I mentioned the energy sector,

01:52grid electricity. We can help them reducing, optimizing the distribution of electricity

01:58and reducing the loss. So first impact that quantum computers can directly have on the

02:03government footprint. And I mean, the cherry of the cake, if you will do, is that quantum

02:09computers are also part of the solutions, because they are also very low energy intensive.

02:15It takes only a couple of kilowatts to operate our quantum computers,

02:20compared to megawatts with classical watts.