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France, Germany, and the Netherlands have awarded over €30 million ($33.8 million USD) in joint funding to a new set of quantum R&D projects under the first Trilateral Call for Quantum Innovation. The initiative, launched in March 2024, supports European cross-border collaboration in quantum computing, communication, and sensing technologies. French partners received €11 million ($12 million USD) in support from the France 2030 plan, while selected projects span the broader European quantum ecosystem. The trilateral program attracted over 120 applications and selected projects through a two-stage competitive evaluation. Key priorities include scalable architectures for fault-tolerant quantum computing, photonic and superconducting systems [...]

Oxford-affiliated startup Quantum Light has secured $1 million in pre-seed funding to develop and commercialize quantum dot-based pigments. The round was backed by Venrex, Oxford Seed Fund, Light Ray Ventures, I2BF Global Ventures, and senior executives from Google and Meta. The investment will support R&D, scaling partnerships with manufacturers, and initial market entry. Quantum Light’s technology leverages quantum confinement effects to engineer pigments that emit with narrowband precision at tunable wavelengths. These “quantum pigments” exploit the photon emission characteristics of quantum dots, offering spectral control across the visible and invisible spectrum. This approach eliminates reliance on traditional molecular dyes or inorganic [...]

China Telecom Quantum Group has launched a commercial-grade distributed cryptography system integrating quantum key distribution (QKD) with post-quantum cryptography (PQC). Designed to provide resilience against both current and future threats posed by quantum computing, the hybrid system secures communications using a dual-layer approach: QKD enables key transmission via quantum-mechanical principles, while PQC leverages hard mathematical problems to ensure resistance to quantum algorithmic attacks. According to the company, this combination delivers an end-to-end quantum-secure architecture applicable to encrypted messaging, secure authentication, and real-time data protection. The system was demonstrated through a 1,000-kilometer quantum-encrypted voice call between Beijing and Hefei — reportedly the [...]

Quantum Circuits has announced a collaboration with NVIDIA and Supermicro to deploy NVIDIA Grace Hopper Superchips as part of an initiative to accelerate quantum algorithm development and hybrid quantum-classical workflows. Installed at Quantum Circuits’ headquarters in New Haven, the systems will support a research partnership with the Yale Quantum Institute (YQI) and QuantumCT. The integration centers around leveraging Quantum Circuits’ Dual-Rail Cavity Qubit (DRQ) technology and AquSim simulator with NVIDIA’s CUDA-Q programming platform, enabling high-throughput development and testing of fault-tolerant quantum computing architectures. The collaboration’s initial focus is quantum error correction (QEC), a primary challenge in the quantum computing field. Rather [...]

Qubit Pharmaceuticals has unveiled FeNNix-Bio1, a quantum AI foundation model developed to transform molecular simulations across biomolecular and pharmaceutical research. Trained entirely on synthetic quantum chemistry data, FeNNix-Bio1 integrates high-accuracy quantum methods including Density Functional Theory (DFT), Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC), and Configuration Interaction (CI) to build a comprehensive and generalizable representation of interatomic forces. By using transfer learning to combine the coverage of DFT with the precision of QMC and CI, the model captures quantum-level behavior in a scalable format. The approach was enabled by exascale high-performance computing resources provided by GENCI, EuroHPC, and Argonne. FeNNix-Bio1 enables reactive molecular dynamics [...]

The National Center for High-Performance Computing (NCHC) in Taiwan has announced a new AI supercomputing system designed to support research in quantum computing, sovereign AI, and climate science. Built by ASUS and powered by NVIDIA technologies, the new system features NVIDIA HGX H200 systems with over 1,700 GPUs, NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 rack-scale systems, and the Blackwell Ultra-based NVIDIA HGX B300 platform. Interconnected by NVIDIA Quantum InfiniBand, the system is expected to provide over eight times the AI performance of the previous Taiwania 2 system and will become operational later this year. In the domain of sovereign AI, the supercomputer will back [...]

D-Wave Quantum Inc. has announced the general availability of its sixth-generation Advantage2 annealing quantum computer, featuring over 4,400 qubits and significant architectural improvements. The system integrates a new Zephyr topology with 20-way qubit connectivity, offering higher energy scale, reduced noise, and improved coherence. These upgrades enable faster time-to-solution and higher-fidelity outcomes in real-world quantum applications. According to the company, the Advantage2 system is engineered to address complex optimization, simulation, and AI workloads that are increasingly beyond the scope of classical computing. The Advantage2 processor achieves a 40% increase in energy scale and a 75% reduction in noise relative to its predecessor, [...]

IQM Quantum Computers has signed an agreement with Finland’s VTT Technical Research Centre to deliver two superconducting quantum computers: a 150-qubit system in 2026 and a 300-qubit system in 2027. The 300-qubit system will be the largest superconducting quantum computer procured to date and is composed of two 150-qubit processors. Both machines are purpose-built to support quantum error correction (QEC) research, enabling the development of fault-tolerant quantum computing technologies. The systems will be fully integrated into Finland’s national high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure. This delivery builds upon IQM’s prior work with VTT, which included the delivery of 5-, 20-, and 50-qubit systems. [...]

Quantum Machines has launched QUAlibrate, an open-source calibration framework aimed at significantly reducing the time required to calibrate quantum computers. Calibration is a major bottleneck in quantum system performance and scalability, often requiring hours or even days for larger systems. QUAlibrate enables the creation, execution, and sharing of modular calibration protocols, allowing researchers to calibrate multi-qubit superconducting systems in under 10 minutes. At the Israeli Quantum Computing Center, QUAlibrate achieved full multi-qubit calibration in just 140 seconds. QUAlibrate is built on the QUA programming language and leverages the Quantum Abstract Machine (QUAM) to model quantum hardware for flexible calibration workflows. The [...]

Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), in collaboration with NVIDIA, has launched ABCI-Q, a new research-focused supercomputing system designed to support large-scale hybrid quantum-classical computing. The system is hosted at the newly established Global Research and Development Center for Business by Quantum-AI Technology (G-QuAT) and is powered by 2,020 NVIDIA H100 GPUs interconnected using NVIDIA’s Quantum-2 InfiniBand platform. The hybrid infrastructure integrates CUDA-Q, an open-source platform for orchestrating large-scale quantum-classical computing, enabling researchers to simulate and accelerate quantum applications at scale. ABCI-Q supports hybrid workloads by combining GPU-based simulation with physical quantum processors from multiple vendors. The [...]