The German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) is funding the project “Platform and Ecosystem for Quantum-Assisted Artificial Intelligence (PlanQK), in which the Chair of Mobile and Distributed Systems is also involved. The funding for PlanQK comes as part of the innovation competition “Artificial Intelligence as a Driver for Economically Relevant Ecosystems“, which aims to “quickly get AI out of the research labs and onto the streets,” said German Economics Minister Peter Altmaier in a press release. More information on PlanQK, which combines the core topics of quantum computing and artificial intelligence, can be found on the PlanQK website.