Rigetti and other quantum stocks<\/a> saw a boost after Microsoft’s earnings call, in which the tech giant’s CEO called out quantum computing as “the next big accelerator” in cloud computing.<\/p>\n Microsoft sees quantum computing in its future<\/p>\n Microsoft’s recent earnings — which showed strong growth and an incredible increase in the company’s artificial intelligence (AI) capital expenditures — included a nod to its efforts in quantum computing. During the company’s call, CEO Satya Nadella spoke of the technology as an exciting opportunity in the future, adding that it had a technological breakthrough in partnership with Atom Computing.<\/p>\n Image source: Getty Images.<\/p>\n Nadella was optimistic, saying:<\/p>\n The next big accelerator in the cloud will be quantum, and I’m excited about our progress. In fact, earlier this month, we announced the world’s first operational deployment of a Level Two quantum computer in partnership with Atom Computing. This is how we will continue to think and make investments with decade-long arcs while making progress every quarter.<\/p>\n Investors should keep an eye on timelines<\/p>\n While this is positive news, the details were fairly light, and his “decade-long arcs” comment should make investors pause. I think that we are many, many years, if not decades, away from viable quantum computing, yet Rigetti and other quantum computing companies are reaching multibillion-dollar valuations already. I think there is a disconnect here, and investors should be realistic about the possibility that this technology is a long way from maturity and commercial viability.<\/p>\n Johnny Rice<\/a> has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool has positions in and recommends Microsoft. The Motley Fool recommends the following options: long January 2026 $395 calls on Microsoft and short January 2026 $405 calls on Microsoft. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rigetti Computing shares jumped after Microsoft signaled quantum computing as the next leap in cloud technology. Shares of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[64,63,257,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-35831","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-computing","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-computing","11":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>\n