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The convergence of emerging technologies allows us to address the discovery process in a fundamentally new way. AI and quantum will increasingly combine with rapidly-advancing high-performance classical computers as a platform for scientific discovery.

The IBM-built Summit supercomputer pictured here is the world's smartest and most powerful supercomputer. (Photo Credit: ORNL)

IBM designed an approach to accelerate material discovery where AI is a key component across the entire chain of the material discovery process. This includes its cloud-powered chemistry lab RoboRXN, which allows researchers to create new materials by predicting the outcome of chemical reactions. Since earlier this year IBM scientists around the world are using RoboRXN to synthesize materials for carbon capture, photoresists and antivirals. It will soon go to work generating materials for nitrogen fixation.

The hybrid cloud will enable a flexible infrastructure of emerging technologies to supercharge the discovery of materials, some of which we haven’t imagined yet.

Inside the IBM Cloud in Dallas, Texas. (Credit: Connie Zhou for IBM)

IBM Chief Executive Officer Arvind Krishna (left) and Director of IBM Research Dario Gil are pictured with a 10-foot-tall and 6-foot-wide "super-fridge,” a dilution refrigerator larger than any commercially available. The “super-fridge” is being custom built by IBM to effectively support quantum systems as they scale to the thousands and eventually million-plus qubit systems of the future that will be capable of solving problems out of reach of today’s most powerful supercomputers (Credit: Connie Zhou for IBM)

IBM Chief Executive Officer Arvind Krishna (left) and Director of IBM Research Dario Gil are pictured with a 10-foot-tall and 6-foot-wide "super-fridge,” a dilution refrigerator larger than any commercially available. The “super-fridge” is being custom built by IBM to effectively support quantum systems as they scale to the thousands and eventually million-plus qubit systems of the future that will be capable of solving problems out of reach of today’s most powerful supercomputers (Credit: Connie Zhou for IBM)

:IBM Chief Executive Officer Arvind Krishna (left) and Director of IBM Research Dario Gil are pictured with a 10-foot-tall and 6-foot-wide "super-fridge,” a dilution refrigerator larger than any commercially available. The “super-fridge” is being custom built by IBM to effectively support quantum systems as they scale to the thousands and eventually million-plus qubit systems of the future that will be capable of solving problems out of reach of today’s most powerful supercomputers.
Credit: Connie Zhou for IBM

IBM Quantum Hummingbird is a 65-qubit processor available on the IBM Cloud for members of the IBM Q Network. Quantum processors rely on the mathematics of elementary particles in order to expand computational capabilities, running quantum circuits rather than the logic circuits of digital computers.
Credit: Connie Zhou for IBM

IBM Watson Assistant helps communicate registration and absentee ballot procedures to Idaho citizens (credit: IBM)

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Open Questions with Watson Discovery is available on the US Open mobile app, shown here, and USOpen.org (courtesy: IBM)