Google is reportedly optimistic that it will release commercial quantum computing applications within five years.That achievement would be sooner than the several years to two decades often predicted by investors and experts, Reuters reported Wednesday (Feb. 5).“We’re optimistic that within five years we’ll see real-world applications that are possible only on quantum computers,” Hartmut Neven, founder and lead of Google Quantum AI, said in the report.Quantum computing is expected to deliver computers that ...