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Building the quantum-AI future with Hartmut Neven and James Manyika

Google Developers (Google I/O) · May 21, 2026 · Industry Trends

Google's quantum AI team, founded 2012, employs Nobel Prize-winning hardware scientists.

“Michelle Devet is actually our chief hardware scientist on the quantum computing team at Google.”

At Google I/O, James Manyika and Hartmut Neven discussed Google's long-term quantum computing moonshot, tracing its foundations to 1980s superconductivity research by scientists who won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics. Two of those Nobel laureates — including chief hardware scientist Michelle Devet — have been part of Google's quantum team. The session is contextual background rather than a new product or research announcement.

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