Countries, technology companies, venture capital firms, and huge multinational global corporations across multiple industries are all taking part in one of the largest and most expensive technological races in history. The race toward the “holy grail” – the quantum computer. This goal is no scientific gimmick, but rather, an infrastructure capable of reshaping geopolitical, technological, economic, and security power balances.

The United States, China, the European Union, and other countries are investing billions of dollars in the development of quantum technologies with a clear objective: to become the first to transform quantum physics from a fragile experimental system into an efficient and superior machine capable of solving problems that conventional computers simply cannot handle.

Every player in this race understands the stakes. Whoever succeeds could dramatically influence fields such as drug development, encryption, logistics, financial........

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