{"id":4689,"date":"2026-04-14T08:11:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T08:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/4689\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T08:11:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T08:11:24","slug":"chinese-team-shows-quantum-tech-can-disrupt-ai-in-a-real-world-task","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/4689\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese team shows quantum tech can disrupt AI in a real-world task"},"content":{"rendered":"

An AI computing centre capable of predicting weather patterns<\/a> weeks in advance typically carries a price tag of US$100 million or more.Now, Chinese researchers say a small-scale quantum system<\/a> can outperform such facilities at less than 1 per cent of the cost.The findings raise questions about the long-term economics of the global artificial intelligence infrastructure<\/a> race. If compact quantum systems can deliver competitive performance in specific tasks, could today\u2019s colossal data centres costing trillions of dollars soon be obsolete?
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Will AI replace conventional methods in forecasting typhoons in Hong Kong?<\/p>\n

Will AI replace conventional methods in forecasting typhoons in Hong Kong?<\/p>\n

The breakthrough system, built on nine interacting quantum spins, matched or exceeded the performance of a classical reservoir network with 10,000 nodes in multi-step weather prediction tasks.<\/p>\n

The findings were reported on March 25 by a joint team from the University of Science and Technology of China and Chinese University of Hong Kong. They were published in Physical Review Letters, a top physics journal, and supported by national research funding programmes in China.<\/p>\n

In the United States, government and private investment in AI-driven weather forecasting alone has surged into the hundreds of millions of dollars.<\/p>\n

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has invested almost US$100 million in upgrading its Rhea supercomputing system, while legislation such as the TAME Act authorises nearly US$188 million over five years for AI weather research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An AI computing centre capable of predicting weather patterns weeks in advance typically carries a price tag of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24,25,387,868,4420,132,4426,320,4424,58,4419,4425,4427,4421,4422,4423],"class_list":{"0":"post-4689","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ai","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-china","11":"tag-chinese-academy-of-sciences","12":"tag-chinese-university-of-hong-kong","13":"tag-google","14":"tag-jiuzhang-quantum-computer","15":"tag-microsoft","16":"tag-national-oceanic-and-atmospheric-administration","17":"tag-nvidia","18":"tag-physical-review-letters","19":"tag-rigetti-computing","20":"tag-spinq-technology","21":"tag-stargate","22":"tag-tame-act","23":"tag-university-of-science-and-technology-of-china"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}