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      "text": "They just don’t present data that doesn’t tell their story. It’s not that they’re faking data. There’s no data anywhere in this presentation, right? There’s no data that shows they have a 32 qubit 4.2 quantum volume device. There’s no data.",
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      "text": "The paper is actually not on the website. It’s called ‘Application-Oriented Performance Benchmark for Quantum Computing.’ And it was submitted on October 7, 2021. And that is the best publication of IonQ performance. Page 12 shows the best performance of IonQ, but it only shows 21 qubits...and they don’t even address quantum volume. And so, it’s kind of remarkable that that paper isn’t on the website.",
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