This week on GAEA Talks, Graeme Scott sits down with James Palles-Dimmock, CEO of Quantum Motion, Cambridge-trained physicist, and one of the sharpest voices in the world on how quantum computing will actually reach useful scale.

Filmed in the new London studio, this is one of the most technically substantive and hype-free conversations on quantum computing GAEA Talks has recorded. James's argument is simple and radical. Quantum computing will not scale by adding qubits one at a time in a university lab. It will scale by riding the only industrial process that can hit millions or billions of units, which is CMOS. That is the bet Quantum Motion is making, backed by over one hundred and sixty million dollars of funding, a deployed machine at the National Quantum Computing Centre and a leading position in DARPA's Quantum Benchmarking Initiative.

Topics covered:

What a quantum computer actually is (and what it is not)
Why silicon spin qubits are the only credible route to million-qubit scale
The AI and quantum crossover - why quantum is a data generator for AI, not a competitor
Why AI's real limitation is data and world models, not architecture
The Landauer limit and reversible computing
Steve Jobs's "bicycle of the mind" and specific vs general AI
The scientific method in one line - "try to make mistakes as quickly as possible"
Sovereign AI as resilience, not autarky
The Quantum Motion roadmap to a utility-scale quantum computer by 2032 to 2033
Why the real breakthroughs will come from a fourteen year old in her bedroom, not a warehouse