Richard Murray, CEO and co-founder of Orca Computing, discusses the company's focus on building photonic quantum computers using existing telecom components and optical fibers. Orca differentiates itself by leveraging its origins from a quantum networking research group at the University of Oxford, emphasizing practical near-term applications in machine learning and optimization. Richard highlights the unique challenges of photonic quantum computing, such as manipulating single photons for qubit gates, and the company's efforts in pioneering multiplexing techniques to scale their systems.
