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In a webinar presentation today, French quantum hardware manufacturer Pasqal has released a roadmap for its hardware and software development and also has described some of the early customers and applications who are working with their neutral atom based machine. The company has an aggressive schedule for improving their hardware along several fronts including the number of qubits, repetition rate, gate operations per calculation, hours of QPU availability, and software features. They are also working to expand the number of manufacturing facilities with a new one in Sherbrooke, Quebec slated to build and deliver a machine to its first customer later [...]

Two of the biggest challenges in creating a next generation, higher performance quantum computer is obtaining high levels of qubit quality and also scaling up the numbers of qubits to meaningful levels. An additional challenge is to improve the gate delays so the operations can run faster and reduce the runtime for complicated algorithms. Quantinuum has recently shown a couple of papers that show progress in these areas. As shown in the diagram above, their latest released quantum process is called the H2 which has 32 qubits arranged in what they call a racetrack topology. Implementing more qubits using this architecture [...]

Quantum Circuits, Inc. has named Ray Smets as President and CEO. He will be working to scale and commercialize the company as it introduces its superconducting, error detection and handling quantum technology later this year. Mr. Smets has over thirty years of management experience spanning operations, sales, marketing, and product execution in several high-growth cloud, data center and networking companies including Cisco, A10 Networks, Motorola, and AT&T. A press release announcing his joining the company can be seen here. Strangeworks has appointed Daniel Ley as the SVP Revenue. In this role he will lead the company's revenue growth and go-to-market efforts. Mr. Ley has [...]

Progress report three years after the launch of the national strategy for quantum technologies and launch of the PROQCIMA program In a bid to make France the center of gravity of the global quantum industry, the government has launched a French National Strategy for quantum that included projected investments of €1 billion ($1.1B USD) from the government over a four year period with additional investments being made by the private sector. France has made considerable progress is enjoying significant quantum startup activity and private funding in the country as well as gains in attracting and developing talent. To further accelerate progress [...]

QAI Ventures just celebrated its first anniversary as a $50 million, early-stage venture fund and startup accelerator. Anca Albu is the chief marketing officer at QAI Ventures and works with entrepreneurs to help them craft compelling stories about their work. She helped build the largest and most active angel investor network in Switzerland, so she knows what it takes to build a community of funders, mentors and supporters around a new industry. In this episode, she explains lessons learned after one year, the importance of storytelling for quantum leaders, and what’s next for her team. Transcript Veronica Combs: Hello, and welcome [...]

Google Quantum AI along with additional support from the Geneva Science Diplomacy Anticipator (GESDA) Foundation is sponsoring a 3 year, $5 million prize competition to encourage development of novel algorithms, new applications, or ways of implementing enhanced performance of quantum solutions that can help solve real-world challenges. The contest will be administered by the XPRIZE Foundation, a non-profit set up in 1994 to host public competitions intended to encourage technical breakthroughs. As stated in the contest guidelines: To win the prize, teams must develop a new (or meaningfully improved) application of quantum computers that addresses a computationally complex problem and demonstrate [...]

Picture of the Direc-3 Entropy Quantum Computer. Credit: QCI Quantum Computing Inc. (QCi) has launched Dirac-3, a quantum optimization platform designed to solve complex problems using nonlinear quantum optics. The system encodes a problem into its photonic architecture and modulates the interaction between variables, ultimately finding an optimal solution. Unique to Dirac is its ability to solve integer problems using up to 964 quantum digits (qudits) with each qudit capable of 200 discrete modes, expanding the use of quantum technology beyond quantum bits (qubits). The system is designed to solve complex problems using nonlinear quantum optics. It encodes a problem into [...]

SBQuantum, a company developing diamond quantum magnetometers, and Silicon Microgravity, a company developing innovative inertial and gravity sensors, have partnered to accelerate mining exploration using quantum sensing. Their project, QUAMINEX (Quantum Accelerated Mining Exploration), involves the development of a drone-based system of sensors that combine magnetics and gravimetry. This system will improve the location and analysis of underground mineral deposits, reducing the time and capital required for field operations and improving 3D geological readouts. The dual sensor systems can be deployed via drone to detect underground deposits of strategic minerals such as cobalt, copper, lithium, nickel, platinum, and rare earths. The [...]