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Paris-based quantum leader Alice & Bob has announced the completion of its ambitious recruitment drive, hiring over 100 employees in just seven months. This surge brings the company’s total headcount to 251, reaching its target 30% faster than the original June 2026 schedule. This milestone contrasts sharply with the broader French labor market, which LinkedIn reports is currently 30% below pre-pandemic benchmarks, and a global tech sector characterized by widespread layoffs. The rapid expansion follows the company's September 2025 hiring plan, which was designed to scale the specialized workforce necessary for the development of its universal fault-tolerant quantum computer, Graphene. The [...]

Alice & Bob, in collaboration with Los Alamos National Laboratory and GE Vernova, has been awarded $3.9 million from the U.S. Department of Energy’s ARPA-E Quantum Computing for Computational Chemistry (QC3) program. The three-year project aims to develop fault-tolerant quantum algorithms to identify rare-earth-free permanent magnets, which are essential components for electric motors and turbines. The effort is directed toward providing a technical alternative to neodymium-iron-boron (NdFeB) magnets, whose supply chains are currently geographically concentrated and subject to political constraints. The technical objective of the project is to achieve a 10,000-fold speed-up in computing time compared to current state-of-the-art classical simulations. [...]

Horizon Quantum Computing and Alice & Bob have announced a strategic collaboration to integrate their respective software and hardware capabilities, aimed at accelerating the deployment of fault-tolerant quantum computing (FTQC). The partnership centers on the integration of Alice & Bob’s quantum emulators—"virtual versions" of their physical hardware—into Horizon Quantum’s Triple Alpha development environment. This full-stack solution is designed to allow developers to experiment with and test quantum error correction (QEC) protocols using Alice & Bob’s specialized "cat qubit" architecture before physical systems are fully deployed. Alice & Bob’s cat qubit technology is specifically engineered for high hardware efficiency, with the company [...]

Alice & Bob, a French-based quantum computing company specializing in fault-tolerant systems using cat qubits, has announced a strategic partnership with TERATEC, a leading French initiative for high-performance computing (HPC) and simulation. As a new member, Alice & Bob joins over 80 industrial companies, research centers, and academic institutions—including Airbus, AMD, Thales, and L’Oréal—working in the strategic areas of simulation, HPC, AI, and early Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing (eFTQC). The partnership underscores the growing imperative for the HPC and quantum communities to collaborate on integration planning. Alice & Bob will contribute its expertise in integrating quantum hardware and its full software stack [...]

Alice & Bob, a French quantum computing company, has announced its inclusion in Sifted’s ‘Future 50’ list, a ranking of Europe’s top-performing emerging startups. The company is the only quantum computing company to be ranked, achieving a calculated Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 417.38% based on revenue growth over the past two financial years. The recognition is based on strict criteria requiring companies to be headquartered in Europe, privately held, and generating revenue exceeding €500k in the latest financial year. This growth follows the launch of Alice & Bob’s campaign to double its workforce by mid-2026 and the ongoing construction [...]

Alice & Bob, a quantum computing company, and the Science and Technology Facilities Council’s (STFC) Hartree Centre have announced a collaboration to integrate Alice & Bob’s future QPUs with high-performance computing (HPC) environments via SLURM. SLURM is the widely used workload management system for supercomputers. The integration is intended to make Alice & Bob’s cat-qubit technology compatible with existing HPC workflows, allowing quantum processors, GPUs, and CPUs to be comanaged by the workload management system. SLURM allocates computing resources and schedules jobs to run efficiently, which is critical for maximizing throughput in hybrid quantum–classical workflows. Alice & Bob specializes in cat [...]

Alice & Bob, a quantum computing company, and PLASSYS-BESTEK, a supplier of vacuum deposition systems, have announced the delivery of the SQUID-6 UHV deposition system to Alice & Bob’s new advanced quantum lab in Paris. This delivery is part of the ULTRACAT project, which is supported by France’s Defense Innovation Agency (AID). The SQUID-6 UHV is a new, fully automated, ultra-high vacuum (UHV) deposition system designed to enable next-generation quantum chip nanofabrication. It employs a modular cluster architecture working around a central UHV distribution chamber, allowing for the serial processing of multiple wafers up to 8 inches in diameter. This design [...]

Alice & Bob has announced new research results showing that their cat qubits can resist one of the main errors in quantum computers, the bit-flip, for more than one hour. The company measured hour-long bit-flip times, a considerable advance over the previous record of 430 seconds (about seven minutes) set in 2024. The results were achieved on the company's latest qubit design, the Galvanic Cat, which is used on their Helium 2 chip. At a mean photon number of 11, the team was able to measure bit-flip times between 33 and 60 minutes with a 95% confidence interval. The experiment also [...]