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10China just built a quantum computer and, for the first time, open sourced its full quantum operating system.
This is Zuchongzhi 3, a 105 qubit quantum computer that just completed a task which would take the world’s fastest supercomputers an impractical amount of time.
But hardware is only half the story.
China also just open sourced something called Origin Pilot, the world’s first publicly downloadable quantum operating system.
Think of it like Windows, but for quantum computers. It manages multiple quantum processors at once, keeps qubits calibrated automatically, and lets developers write apps across superconducting, trapped ion, and neutral atom systems from a single interface.
So while the West has been focused on raw qubit counts, China quietly built the entire stack, the chip and the software to run it.
This is no longer just a lab experiment. It is becoming a full ecosystem.
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