Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson used a weekend update from “up here at the clinic” in Wyoming to move the quantum-computing debate from speculation to planning. Framing DARPA’s Quantum Benchmarking Initiative (QBI) as the turning point, he said, “finally, finally, finally, we have an objective source of truth,” adding that “as of November 6, 2025, DARPA has selected 11 companies to enter the second stage […] which aims to rigorously verify and validate whether any quantum computing approach can achieve utility scale operation […] by the year 2033.”

DARPA Advances 11 Quantum Teams

He emphasized that QBI is designed to separate “fact from fiction about quantum computers,” and relayed the program manager’s stark split among experts: “Half of them are convinced that quantum computing is

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