At its Quantum Summit 2023, IBM took the stage with an interesting spirit: one of almost awe at having things go their way. But the quantum of today – the one that’s changing IBM’s roadmap so deeply on the back of breakthrough upon breakthrough – was hard enough to consolidate. As IBM sees it, the future of quantum computing will hardly be more permissive. IBM announced cutting-edge devices at the event, including the 133-qubit Heron Quantum Processing Unit (QPU), which is the company's first utility-scale quantum processor, and the self-contained Quantum System Two, a quantum-specific supercomputing architecture. And further improvements to the cutting-edge devices are ultimately required.