IBM has been selected for Stage C of DARPA's Quantum Benchmarking Initiative, moving to the hardware testing phase. The program aims to determine if a fault-tolerant quantum computer can be built by 2033. IBM expects to deliver its first fault-tolerant system, IBM Quantum Starling, in 2029.

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