MIT Technology Review:

Google is releasing free open-source software that will make it easier to build quantum [machine-learning](https://www.technologyreview.com/artificial-intelligence/) applications. TensorFlow Quantum is an add-on to Google’s popular TensorFlow toolkit, which has helped give machine learning a big boost since its launch in 2015.

TensorFlow Quantum will let you write quantum apps without getting bogged down in the details of the [hardware they are running on](https://www.technologyreview.com/s/615268/podcast-google-ibm-quantum-supremacy-computing-feud/). A switch lets you flick between an actual quantum computer and a simulation of one on a classical machine. This means that you can debug your quantum app in a simulation before trying to run it on a full-blown quantum setup. Masoud Mohseni, who leads the TensorFlow Quantum project, expects coders will use it to discover fundamental new algorithms that can be reused by others again and again.

- William Douglas Heaven

[Full Article](https://www.technologyreview.com/f/615337/google-software-tensorflow-quantum-machine-learning-apps-ai-computing/)