China Demonstrates Quantum-Assisted Fine-Tuning of Billion-Parameter AI Model
Mohamed Abdel-Kareem2025-04-07T13:13:56-07:00Researchers at the Anhui Quantum Computing Engineering Research Center have completed the world’s first fine-tuning of a billion-parameter AI model using a superconducting quantum computer. The experiment ran on Origin Wukong, China’s third-generation superconducting quantum system, powered by a 72-qubit chip developed domestically. The quantum processor executed large-scale parallel quantum tasks to accelerate fine-tuning, yielding improved performance on both psychological dialogue and mathematical reasoning benchmarks. The study showed that even after reducing model parameters by 76%, training effectiveness increased by 8.4%, and accuracy on a math reasoning task rose from 68% to 82%. The results suggest quantum resources can complement classical [...]