Announcements

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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