Fault-tolerant quantum computers, Granite is the best for speech recognition, & AI for PFAS @ibmresearch

Uploaded June 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

Welcome to Circuit Breaker, the biweekly recap of IBM’s latest innovations and research. This week we discuss IBMs plans to build Starling - the first large scale fault-tolerant quantum computer. We taker a look at Granite LLM topping Hugging Faces speech recognition leaderboard. And we look at the Safe Materials Advisor - a new AI tool to help industries eliminate harmful materials.

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0:00 - Intro
0:05 - Building the world's first fault-tolerant quantum computer
1:03 - What does fault-tolerant mean?
1:37 - IBM Granite LLM tops the speech recognition charts
2:23 - AI tools to help screen for PFAS

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