DARPA moves Atom Computing, IBM, IonQ and Diraq to final quantum test stage
DARPA moves Atom Computing, IBM, IonQ and Diraq to final quantum test stage

DARPA has moved Atom Computing, Diraq, IBM and IonQ into the final stage of its Quantum Benchmarking Initiative. The US defence research agency runs the programme to test whether anyone can build a useful quantum computer by 2033. DARPA announced the f…

Zapata Quantum joins IBM Quantum Network to build quantum applications
Zapata Quantum joins IBM Quantum Network to build quantum applications

Zapata Quantum, a Boston quantum software company, has joined the IBM Quantum Network, it said on Tuesday. It will use IBM’s machines to build software for its clients. Zapata does not make quantum hardware. Instead, it helps organisations figure out w…

Zapata Quantum opens early access to Quantum Pilot, a roadmap tool for enterprise quantum
Zapata Quantum opens early access to Quantum Pilot, a roadmap tool for enterprise quantum

Quantum hardware roadmaps often include timelines, but they rarely answer the questions that matter most to a chief information officer: which problems will this solve, when will it happen, and at what cost? Zapata Quantum, a Boston-based quantum softw…

France’s CEA and Alice & Bob team up on quantum-supercomputer software
France’s CEA and Alice & Bob team up on quantum-supercomputer software

The Paris-based quantum computing company Alice & Bob and France’s Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) announced today that they will collaborate on software enabling quantum computers to run alongside conventional supercomputer…

Nvidia’s new quantum layer cut Fermilab’s design work from five months to three weeks
Nvidia’s new quantum layer cut Fermilab’s design work from five months to three weeks

Nvidia has added an orchestration layer called CUDA-Q Logical to its open-source quantum platform, aimed at the part of fault-tolerant quantum computing that nobody enjoys. Designing an application for a machine that does not exist yet means guessing a…

Phasecraft says it built the largest VQE dataset without using a quantum computer
Phasecraft says it built the largest VQE dataset without using a quantum computer

Phasecraft has produced what it says is the largest known database of variational quantum eigensolver results, more than 3,000 emulations across 13 molecular systems. The work ran on Nvidia Hopper processors hosted at the University of Nottingham, usin…

EU official calls for consolidation among Europe’s quantum startups
EU official calls for consolidation among Europe’s quantum startups

The EU’s forthcoming Quantum Act will not come with a dedicated budget.  “The act is not about budget,” said Thomas Skordas, deputy director-general of the European Commission’s DG CNECT, at a European Parliament event last week, on 3rd of September. “…

Novo Nordisk Foundation to build $62M quantum chip plant in Copenhagen
Novo Nordisk Foundation to build $62M quantum chip plant in Copenhagen

Europe is getting a factory for quantum chips rather than another quantum computer. Quantum Foundry Copenhagen, owned by the Novo Nordisk Foundation, is building a 5,300-square-metre facility in the Danish capital that is due to open in 2027 and will o…

France’s Pasqal is public, with $360M and a valuation of about 100 times revenue
France’s Pasqal is public, with $360M and a valuation of about 100 times revenue

Pasqal began trading on Nasdaq on Friday under the ticker PSQL, five months after announcing it would go public through a special purpose acquisition company. Shares surged on the debut, according to Reuters. The merger with Bleichroeder Acquisition Co…

Oracle is putting a Quantinuum quantum computer inside its own data centre
Oracle is putting a Quantinuum quantum computer inside its own data centre

Oracle and Quantinuum have agreed a multi-year partnership under which Quantinuum will physically install its Helios quantum computer inside a US Oracle Cloud Infrastructure AI data centre, and Oracle will sell access to it as a managed OCI service. No…