It’s difficult to find anything that’s public, since it’s mostly kept under wraps to create the illusion of progress for our competitors, like China and Russia. However, some marco indicators would be:

1. For every hardware, actual Quantum company, like IonQ, there are 100 software Quantum companies. Claiming they are building the MacOS for Quantum. This is quite pathetic, and simple delusional, since the hardware isn’t even working yet. We are at <100 qubits. This is like saying we developed MacOs in ‘60. Before the C language and Unix. We literally don’t even have good Quantum compilers

2. A lot of publications coming out of China, when they do actually publish, shows much faster progress than we make in the West. There are many reasons for this, but one is, they have a very short turnaround when it comes to fabricating the chips. Shenzhen is basically the new Silicon Valley. In Canada for example, we have to sent chips to Waterloo, which takes like 2-4 weeks. In China they do this with 2-3 days.

3. There are extreme cultural wars within the community about the actual approach: Photonics like what PsiQuantum is doing. Superconducting what Google is doing. Anyon based what Microsoft or Anyon Systems are doing. Or Ionic based what IonQ is doing, etc

4. The physics hate people from other fields coming in, like from the Semiconductor industry.

I can go on, but I’ll stop here