Mohamed Abdel-Kareem

Zapata Quantum, Inc. (formerly Zapata Computing Holdings, Inc.) has announced the completion of the first phase of its strategic restructuring plan. This includes the completion of a $3 million senior secured convertible bridge financing with institutional investors and insiders. The company has also rebranded to Zapata Quantum to reflect its focus on quantum application development. As part of the restructuring, the company repaid $1.1 million of outstanding senior secured debt and converted over $10 million of debt into equity. These actions are intended to strengthen the company’s balance sheet. Zapata Quantum has also secured its intellectual property portfolio of more than [...]

QuantrolOx, a provider of software for automated tuning and characterization of quantum processors, and the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), India’s R&D organization, have signed a Letter of Intent (LoI). The LoI establishes a collaboration to explore the co-development of quantum computing technologies to support government laboratories and academics pursuing quantum computing R&D in India. The partnership aims to co-develop an indigenous quantum software stack and advance tools for the tuning and characterization of various quantum computing platforms. QuantrolOx specializes in its Quantum EDGE software for automated quantum processor characterization and tune-up, which is noted for its ability to [...]

Riverlane has announced that it will deploy its QEC technology, Deltaflow 2, at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). The installation, scheduled to be completed by the end of September 2025, is intended to demonstrate how real-time QEC operates as a dedicated layer in hybrid quantum and high-performance computing (HPC) systems. Deltaflow 2 will be integrated with ORNL’s Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility’s HPC Ecosystem, which is home to Frontier, a powerful supercomputer. Deltaflow 2 is a dedicated real-time QEC technology that performs quantum error correction by decoding data generated by quantum systems with ultra-low latency. It [...]

Maybell Quantum, a quantum infrastructure company, has announced a $40 million Series B financing round led by Addition. The investment will accelerate Maybell’s commercialization of its cryogenic and RF systems, which are foundational components for quantum computing. The company sees an "inflection point" where quantum systems are transitioning from research to real-world deployment, and this funding will help them to invest in new systems, scale manufacturing, and expand global partnerships. Maybell's product platforms, including dilution refrigerators and integrated wiring solutions, are designed to support higher qubit counts and lower error rates. The company aims to provide stable, reliable, and scalable infrastructure [...]

IQM Quantum Computers has announced that it has raised $320 million (€275 million) in a Series B funding round, bringing the company's total funding to date to $600 million. The round was led by the cybersecurity-focused investment firm Ten Eleven Ventures, which is IQM's first U.S. investor. The round also included an increased commitment from existing investor Tesi and participation from new and existing investors, including pension funds Elo Mutual Pension Insurance and Varma Mutual Pension Insurance, strategic investors Companies of Schwarz Group and Winbond Electronics Corporation, and sovereign wealth funds EIC and Bayern Kapital. The funding is intended to advance [...]

The Andhra Pradesh government has approved a proposal from IBM to install a 133-qubit, 5K-gate quantum computer at the Amaravati Quantum Computing Centre (AQCC). This decision was formally endorsed by the State Quantum Mission, chaired by Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu, during its August 20 meeting. The quantum computer will be installed in a 2,000 sq ft facility as part of a four-year agreement. IBM will provide the computer at no capital cost to the government, with the state furnishing the facility and covering power and cooling expenses. The AQCC board secured 365 hours of free annual computing time for state [...]

The Norwegian Government has announced a new investment in quantum technology, committing a total of NOK 1.1 billion ($100 million USD) over five years. This new funding package of NOK 750 million ($70 million USD) is in addition to an ongoing annual investment of NOK 70 million ($6.5 million USD). The initiative's goal is to develop the Norwegian quantum industry, strengthening national competitiveness and security. The announcement was made by Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, Minister of Digitalisation Karianne Tung, and Minister of Research and Higher Education Sigrun Aasland in Trondheim. The initiative aims to mobilize major companies to build and [...]

The state of New Mexico and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) have signed an agreement to establish the Quantum Frontier Project. This is part of a broader $315 million quantum computing initiative, announced by Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham, that aims to accelerate quantum innovation and commercialization in the state. The project directly supports DARPA’s Quantum Benchmarking Initiative (QBI). The $315 million investment is structured to provide $185 million from the state's sovereign wealth fund for private venture capital firms to invest in quantum businesses in New Mexico. DARPA and the state will each contribute up to $60 million over [...]

Researchers from Q-CTRL, NVIDIA, and Oxford Quantum Circuits (OQC) have published research on a new solution for a bottleneck in quantum circuit compilation. The research, detailed in an arXiv preprint, focuses on the subgraph isomorphism problem, which becomes computationally complex as quantum algorithms and hardware systems scale. The new algorithm, named Δ-Motif, is a data-centric approach that replaces traditional backtracking strategies by decomposing graphs into fundamental motifs and modeling graph processing with relational database operations. This solution leverages open-source libraries like Pandas and Numpy and utilizes NVIDIA RAPIDS to achieve parallelism on GPUs. Benchmarks simulating quantum devices larger than current hardware [...]

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), in partnership with Quantum Brilliance, has installed a cluster of quantum computers at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF). The cluster, named Quoll, consists of three Quantum Development Kits (QDKs), featuring three parallelized QPUs for a total of six qubits. This system is ORNL’s first on-site, commercial quantum computer cluster, and it will be used to explore ways to integrate this technology into classical high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructures. The diamond-based QPUs used by Quantum Brilliance operate at room temperature in a compact package. This is possible due to the intrinsic [...]