Announcements

ibm_kyiv and ibm_sherbrooke will be retired in the upcoming weeks.

ibm_brussels and ibm_strasbourg will be temporarily unavailable during planned maintenance on 26 February 2025.

Recent work provides new perspectives on the potential for quantum computers to demonstrate value for interesting combinatorial optimization problems

Two new blogs recap the dev tools released in 2024, and explore how dynamic circuits can enable efficient long-range entanglement.

Highlights from recent documentation updates

Reminder that the backend.run() interface in Qiskit Runtime has been deprecated.

A new post on the IBM Quantum blog describes how IBM Quantum delivered on the challenge to build a quantum computer capable of running quantum circuits with up to 5,000 two-qubit gate operations.

New fractional gates reduce the duration and error for single-qubit gates by up to a factor of two.

Highlights from recent documentation updates

A new post on the IBM Quantum blog shares interesting background on the creation of and future plans for Qiskit Code Assistant.

Reminder of the upcoming sunset of the backend.run() interface in Qiskit Runtime.

The results of 1,000+ benchmarking tests show that Qiskit’s overall speed and quality are second-to-none.

We're excited to announce the preview release of the Qiskit Code Assistant, now available to all IBM Quantum™ Premium Plan users.

Accelerate your research with new abstracted services from IBM and third-party partners

Highlights from recent documentation updates

A closer look at the inner workings of Qiskit Serverless, its recent improvements, and how to get started

ibm_osaka and ibm_cusco are now retired

See all types of workloads that you have submitted

The dashboard section now displays details of your instance usage for Premium Plan instances.

Apply to attend the first IBM Quantum Developer Conference, 13-15 Nov 2024. Attendees will try out new tools and get a preview of roadmap updates.

Qiskit Runtime will no longer support V1 primitives after 15 August 2024.

ibm_osaka and ibm_kyoto will be retired in the upcoming weeks.

Recent research from the University of Washington and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory demonstrates scalable techniques that could one day enable simulations of fundamental physics experiments at the highest energies.

The documentation has been reorganized to align it better with your workflow.

The recent paper, "Quantum computing with Qiskit", provides an overview of the SDK's architecture and core components, and provides an authoritative academic citation for those using it in their publications.

A new page in the documentation highlights the latest and greatest from Qiskit and IBM Quantum.

Technical release summary for Qiskit SDK v1.1.0, including details on top new features and improvements, and new deprecations.

The Qiskit Transpiler Service beta release provides Premium Plan users with IBM Cloud resources and state-of-the-art AI tools for transpilation tasks.

Highlights from documentation updates made in April 2024.

As of 15 May 2024, in line with our focus on utility-scale quantum computing and tooling, we have retired the cloud simulators and IBM Quantum Lab.

How our new and improved execution modes make running utility-scale workloads more reliable, predictable, and efficient than ever before.

Details on the new ISA circuits requirement introduced in the latest version of Qiskit Runtime.

The annual Qiskit coding challenge launches this year on 5 June 2024. Register today and get ready to use the latest Qiskit SDK 1.0 release to tackle utility-scale experiments.

Announced at IBM Quantum Summit, the new and improved execution modes make running quantum workloads more reliable, more predictable, and more efficient than ever.

The Composer will transpile your circuit to a system's ISA before submitting it to Qiskit Runtime, allowing you to run any instruction.

Starting 29 April, jobs submitted in session mode on the Open Plan will execute in job mode. Premium Plan jobs will have dedicated access when submitted in session mode. Also, a reminder to update your libraries.

A new 127-qubit system is available for Open plan users.

Support for backend.run() will officially be dropped on or after 15 October 2024. Please refer to the migration guide for instructions to migrate your code.

Highlights from documentation updates made in March 2024.

Read about this transition, and how to use other tools, such as Qiskit Runtime local testing mode, to efficiently simulate your workloads.

Highlights from documentation updates made since the start of 2024.

Qiskit SDK 1.0 is here! Explore what’s new in the performant and stable release.

In the near future, we are changing how sessions are started within Qiskit Runtime. After 31 March, starting a session by using the /jobs endpoint will no longer be supported. Upgrade to qiskit-ibm-runtime version 0.20.0 or later, or qiskit-ibm-provider version 0.10.0 or later. If you are calling the API directly, use the /sessions endpoint instead.

As of 1 March 2024, circuits and observables need to be transformed to only use instructions supported by the system (referred to as instruction set architecture (ISA) circuits and observables) before being submitted to the Qiskit Runtime primitives.

Members of the IBM Quantum Network can access content curated by IBM to help you stay up-to-date and progress in your quantum skill-building.

The 127-qubit system ibm_osaka is now available for all users.

Qiskit documentation and learning resources have a new home on IBM Quantum Platform.

The 127-qubit system ibm_kyoto is now available for Open plan users. The following systems have been retired on November 28th: ibm_nairobi, ibm_lagos and ibm_perth.

Our new home is at quantum.ibm.com

Introducing the error per layered gate (EPLG), a new quality metric, and updated CLOPS.

If you have access to run on multiple instances, you will have now the ability to switch between.

Session interactive timeout value between jobs in a session for premium and pay-as-you-go users is changing from 5 minutes to 1 minute starting 25 October 2023.

Updates to setting the optimization level in Qiskit Runtime primitives.

Members of the IBM Quantum Network - access content curated by IBM to help you stay up-to-date and progress in your quantum skill-building.

The following systems have been retired on September 26th: ibmq_lima, ibmq_belem, ibmq_quito, ibmq_manila, and ibmq_jakarta. The 127-qubit system ibm_brisbane is now available for Open plan users.

We're redefining our Open Plan, reflected in the IBM Quantum End-User License Agreement latest update; also, the quantum research community can now apply for IBM Quantum Credits.

The Composer is now using Sampler and results of a Sampler job includes the transpiled circuit

You're now able to see the estimated usage of the job in advance, while your job is still sitting in the queue

The IBM Quantum End-User License Agreement will be updated on or around September 26th with new terms applicable to the Open Plan.

With your feedback, we have implemented updates that make it easier to onboard to quantum, and to find the documentation you need to work with our technology.

Open Science Prize—an award for the best open source solution to some of the most pressing problems in the field of quantum computing.

We have released a new feature that will parallelize some of the classical computation necessary to prepare a submitted job.

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