They may believe it, but both of their backgrounds suggest a high propensity to spin and exaggerate. One, a failed start-up that suckered QMC into buying what they could have picked up for free open source, and the other a marketing guy turned exec who was run out of his own company (or worse, bailed out on it).
There is no reason to believe that QMC has anything beyond the most basic of proof-of-concept for AC.
A partner announcement before the end of 2019? Nobody in the world, not one single solitary person, will be surprised when that doesn't happen.
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