 Hi, I'm Mike Murphy and welcome to the short the news roundup from IBM research first up quantum computing has come to Quebec IBM and pink a non-profit started by the University of Sherbrooke Recently unveiled the first IBM quantum system one in Canada The new machine was shown off in an event in Bromont, Quebec attended by executives from IBM pink and the Quebec government the new utility scale quantum computer will be available on the cloud It'll be dedicated to sustainability research for academics and businesses across Canada Next up we're celebrating a decade of IBM research in Africa 10 years ago IBM research opened its first lab in Nairobi, Kenya followed a few years later by a second lab in South Africa And at an event at our Nairobi lab leaders from IBM and the Kenyan government came together to celebrate the achievements The Africa labs over the last decade their projects have covered government digital transformation education Transportation water management Agriculture financial inclusion health care and climate and I recently spoke with outgoing African labs leader Solomon Asefa Who told me IBM is now at the epicenter of innovation on the African continent? And in case you missed it IBM announced its new granite models for Watson X and I'll just say it it rocks Earlier this year IBM introduced Watson X a new data and AI platform And now there's an entire new set of IBM created models for companies to use called granite The model series is well suited to generative AI tasks like summarization content generation classification and extracting insights Based on testing by IBM research results show that training granite models on high quality finance data Gives them the potential to perform similarly or even better than much larger models For more on the latest innovations from IBM, make sure you check out our newsletter future forward till next time