Alphabet (GOOGL) is joining with OpenAI investor SoftBank (SFTBF) to back quantum computing startup QuEra, as part of a $230 million funding

Google and SoftBank’s Vision Fund are new investors in Inc., participating in a $230 million funding round for the Boston-based startup, which aims to make quantum computing more practical. QuEra Interim Chief Executive Officer Andy Ory said the latest funding round came together quickly — “in a matter of weeks” — after the startup cleared a series of technical challenges that spurred investors to approach him.

QuEra Computing, a Boston-based quantum computing company, has raised $230 million in a round led by Google (GOOGL) and SoftBank (SFTBF) ’s Vision Fund 2 to develop “fault-tolerant” quantum computers,

Quantum computing, long relegated to the realm of the theoretical, feels like it is back on the agenda as a potentially viable alternative to the