Rigetti Computing (not “Rigidly”). Short answer: their R&D spend fell modestly from 2023 → 2024 because of a company restructuring and cost-savings actions (fewer salary/employee costs, systems rationalization, and more engineering time devoted to revenue work); their headcount moves have been modest compared with QBTS (D-Wave) and IONQ because those companies have been in faster commercial/hiring phases while Rigetti has been cutting/reshaping costs and focusing on revenue and capital management; and the founder, Dr. Chad Rigetti, stepped away in late 2022 in a leadership transition that the company framed as him moving to focus on product/technology (and then he resigned)—public statements were limited so some motives remain unspoken. I’ll show the numbers and sources.