This is a reasonable take. Consider that IBM, Microsoft, and Google - the credible cloud competitors to AWS - all have their own in-house QC efforts. AWS is outsourcing theirs... they make it sound like it's going to be a marketplace model, but you're right, if/once the profit motive is in place they'll snap up the supplier.
Of course, if nothing productive materializes, they're also out nothing. Sort of a win-win for them.
The question I have is whether we'll see things like SageMaker and other higher level machine learning features use the quantum computers on the back end.
Of course, if nothing productive materializes, they're also out nothing. Sort of a win-win for them.
The question I have is whether we'll see things like SageMaker and other higher level machine learning features use the quantum computers on the back end.