Abstract
When computational chemist Alán Aspuru-Guzik told his business partner Christopher Savoie that he had an idea for a quantum computing software company, Savoie was skeptical, he admits. This was 2017, and quantum computing was (and arguably still is) in its infancy. Savoie asked Aspuru-Guzik what a state-of-the-art quantum computer could do. Not much more than a pocket calculator, Aspuru-Guzik told him. But the two had worked together successfully at Kyulux on machine-learning methods to advance organic light-emitting diode technology, so Savoie visited Aspuru-Guzik’s lab, then at Harvard University. By the time they’d finished lunch, Savoie says, he was convinced that Aspuru-Guzik and his collaborators—Yudong Cao, Peter Johnson, Jonathan P. Olson, and Jhonathan Romero Fontalvo—were on to something. By the afternoon, Aspuru-Guzik was calling quantum computing researchers to introduce Savoie as the new CEO of Zapata Computing. Quantum computing proponents have made huge promises, especially in chemistry. A traditional computer represents
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