Pan Jianwei, zweite links, leitender Wissenschaftler der Quantum Chinas Experimente in Raum und Mitglied der Akademie, und Shi Yaoyun, rechts, führen scient
Pan Jianwei, second left, lead scientist of China's quantum experiments at space scale and a member of the academy, and Shi Yaoyun, right, lead scientist of quantum computing of Aliyun, attend the launch ceremony of Quantum Computing Cloud platform in Hangzhou city, east China's Zhejiang province, 11 October 2017. A Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) research institute and Aliyun, Alibaba's cloud computing subsidiary, have released a cloud platform for quantum computing. The platform was announced online by Aliyun and the CAS innovative center for quantum information and quantum physics (Shanghai) at a cloud computing conference Wednesday (11 October 2017) in Hangzhou city, east China's Zhejiang province, where Alibaba is based. The platform will offer users a development and testing environment for cloud-based quantum algorithms.