New Delhi, Aug. 8 -- Quantum computing is steadily moving from research labs into enterprise technology roadmaps, with companies building hybrid quantum-classical platforms and setting increasingly ambitious targets for fault-tolerant systems. But as vendors increasingly bring quantum computing and artificial intelligence into the same conversation, Gartner is warning enterprises against assuming that "quantum AI" is ready for production.

The research firm says no enterprise AI workload at scale will run on quantum hardware through 2028, with CPUs, GPUs, TPUs and other forms of classical accelerated computing continuing to dominate production AI workloads.

The distinction matters as CIOs face pressure to prepare simultaneously for gener...