IBM announces the first large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum supercomputer.

The Quantum Starling has begun construction at IBM's quantum data complex in Poughkeepsie (New York) and will be operational in four years. It will execute, according to the company, 20,000 times more circuits than current quantum computers and will be capable of performing 100 million operations using 200 logical qubits.

Starling, according to the company, “will be able to run algorithms that could drastically accelerate efficiency across all industries, including drug development, material discovery, chemistry, logistics optimization, and financial optimization, among many other areas.”

These advancements are the foundation for completing Starling in 2029, which in turn will be the foundation for IBM Blue Jay in 2033, when it will be capable of executing, according to Matthias Steffen, a researcher on the company's quantum team, “1 billion quantum operations across 2,000 logical qubits,” ten times more powerful than the Starling model.