A Very Short History of Quantum Computing

40 years ago, Nobel Prize-winner Richard Feynman argued that “nature isn’t classical, dammit, and if you want to make a simulation of nature, you’d better make it quantum mechanical.” This was later perceived as a rallying cry for developing a quantum computer, leading to today’s rapid progress in the search for quantum supremacy. Here’s a very short history of the evolution of quantum computing.

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AI and Healthcare

Two AI luminaries, Fei-Fei Li and Andrew Ng got together today on YouTube, to discuss the state of AI in healthcare.

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AI and In-Vitro Fertilization

Using big data, AI, and computer vision technologies, Israeli startup AiVF aims to transform the process of In-Vitro Fertilization (IVF).

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The Future of Global Workforce Management

How do you get from $0 to $1.2 billion valuation in 60 months? You deliver the future of work now. Or, as Eynat Guez, CEO of Papaya Global, says laughing, “you put in a lot of working hours,” ten-year-worth of working hours in the five years since she launched the company with her two co-founders.

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AI in Healthcare Now

Kira Radinsky, co-founder and Chairman of Diagnostic Robotics, wants to make healthcare more affordable and accessible. The lessons learned from initial deployments of the startup’s AI-based digital triage platform in Israel and the U.S. and the valuable experience gained during the Covid-19 pandemic, point to a future of better healthcare: Providing the right treatment at the right time in the most appropriate setting.

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Data will Continue to Eat the World in 2021

54 predictions about the state of data in the near future

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AI, Immunotherapy, and Precision Medicine

Tel-Aviv-based Nucleai is developing AI software for image analysis and modeling of pathology data to assist in the development of more effective drugs.

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Controlling Quantum Computing with Quantum Machines

Quantum Machines develops the cloud infrastructure for quantum computing.

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A New Fintech Platform

Startup foundry and VC Team8 launched Team8 Fintech to identify, fund, and grow future fintech unicorns.

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Baidu: Quantum Computing

Baidu is on a quest to marry quantum computing with machine learning and AI.

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