IBM—IBM made quantum computing publicly accessible through open-source Qiskit framework and cloud access
Since 2016, IBM has provided free public access to quantum computers via the cloud through IBM Quantum Experience, and developed Qiskit, an open-source Python framework for quantum computing that became the world's most widely used quantum software stack. IBM open-sourced Qiskit on GitHub, enabling researchers, students, and developers globally to experiment with quantum computing without financial barriers.
Scoring Impact
| Topic | Direction | Relevance | Contribution |
|---|---|---|---|
| Knowledge Access & Information Freedom | +toward | secondary | +0.50 |
| Open Source | +toward | primary | +1.00 |
| Overall incident score = | +0.443 | ||
Score = avg(topic contributions) × significance (medium ×1) × confidence (0.59)
Evidence (1 signal)
IBM released Qiskit as open-source on GitHub and provided free quantum computing cloud access since 2016
IBM open-sourced the Qiskit quantum computing framework on GitHub in 2017 and has provided free public access to quantum computers via the cloud since 2016. Qiskit became the world's most widely used quantum software development kit, enabling researchers, students, and developers to access quantum computing without commercial barriers.