▶ 74:19 · $SIGLER · Rigetti founder launches Sigler: quantum-accelerated AI servers targeting orders-of-magnitude speedup

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Open-Source AI Battle, Google Throttles Meta, Micron Margins Moon, Rocket Lab buys Iridium

2026-06-29 · 6 company · 10 thematic

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john coogan

Co-host of TBPN, a live technology and business show focused on startups, venture capital and Silicon Valley.

chad regetti

pam

neil

Neil is the co-founder and CTO of K2 Space, leading engineering on the Mega-class satellite platform. He oversees development of 20kW Hall thrusters, deployable solar arrays, high-voltage power systems, and radiation-hardened electronics for operation across LEO, MEO, GEO, and deep space.

chris hchek

jordi hays

Co-host of TBPN, a live technology and business show covering startups, venture capital and Silicon Valley.

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“We're building quantum accelerated AI servers for the data center to bring quantum technologies directly into the data center to act as a co-processor for the GPU or XPU pods that have become the unit of compute and AI infrastructure today…”

—chad regetti

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