February 25, 2025  – QuEra Computing Inc. has started a collaboration with Deloitte Tohmatsu Group intended to advance the quantum industry in Japan. The collaboration, reinforced by an investment in QuEra by Deloitte Tohmatsu Financial Advisory LLC, a group company of Deloitte Tohmatsu, aims to drive innovation among business and academic players in the field. […]

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Boston – February 11, 2025 – QuEra Computing, a neutral-atom quantum computing, today announced it has successfully completed a financing of more than $230 million. The funds will be used to accelerate the development and production of large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computers, reinforcing the company’s position at the forefront of quantum innovation. The investment comes from […]

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VANCOUVER, BC, February 11, 2025  – Photonic Inc. has introduced a low-overhead family of Quantum Low-Density Parity Check (QLDPC) codes that can efficiently perform both quantum computation and error correction, using materially fewer quantum bits (qubits) than traditional surface code approaches, according to the company. “Unlocking the quantum logic of high-performance QLDPC codes has been […]

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Feb. 6, 2025 — The Barcelona Supercomputing Center – Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS) – has presented what it said is the first quantum computer developed with 100 percent European technology. “This milestone consolidates BSC at the forefront of supercomputing in Europe and lays the foundations for a new era of hybrid computing, combining traditional […]

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Cambridge, UK; Espoo, Finland; Zurich, Switzerland, Feb. 6, 2025 – IQM Quantum Computers, Riverlane, and Zurich Instruments have announced the launch of the SurgeonQ project, a collaboration to create what they said is the first quantum computing platform capable of running multiple real-time quantum error correction operations. The project represents progress towards commercially viable quantum […]

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Feb. 1, 2025 — The European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) has signed a procurement contract with Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech for MareNostrum-Ona, a quantum annealer to be hosted at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) in Spain. The system, co-funded with a total acquisition cost of €8.5 million ($8.8 million USD), will initially offer at least 10 physical qubits, with […]

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SoftBank Corp. and Quantinuum today announced a partnership in quantum computing intended to "unlock innovative quantum computing solutions that will overcome the limitations of classical artificial intelligence and realize next-generation technologies." Terms were not disclosed. SoftBank made news last week at the White House when President ....

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Donostia, Spain and San Francisco – January 16, 2025 – Multiverse Computing and Kinesis Network Inc. have joined  to provide what the companies said is an effort to optimize AI performance while reducing resource consumption. The partnership comes as demand for AI capabilities grows and organizations face challenges related to power demands for AI models. Quantum and […]

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The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science (SC) announced that $625 million is available to support National Quantum Information Science Research Centers. These centers, which are multi-institutional, multi-disciplinary teams, are intended to accelerate the transformational advances in basic science ....

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A vexing problem has long confronted quantum computer designers: the need to keep bits in a superconducting quantum processor free of errors and ready to perform calculations whenever necessary. These “qubits” are notoriously sensitive to heat and radiation, which can spoil their calculations ....

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