IBM doubles its Quantum Computing power

IBM announced at CES 2020 that its newest 28-qubit quantum computer, Raleigh, achieved the company’s goal of doubling its Quantum Volume (IBM names its systems by city names). Raleigh reached a Quantum Volume of 32 […]

Is France really ready to launch any Quantum initiative?

Paul Forteza, a LREM national MP (French President Macron political party) today presented the conclusions of its Quantum Report: The technological shift that France will not miss.  The report includes six ambitious strategic recommendations and […]

Delta Airlines and Daimler adopt IBM Quantum Computing

Daimler and Delta Airlines have partnered with IBM to develop real-world quantum computing applications and have joined the IBM Q Network™. Daimler wants to research into quantum computing to make lithium-sulfur batteries a viable replacement […]

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Quantum approach to option pricing in finance

A team from Universitat de Barcelona and Instituto de Fisica Teorica de Madrid, Spain, presents a novel quantum algorithm for European option pricing in finance, where the key idea is to work in the unary […]

Russia joins Quantum Computing race

Russian government will inject around 50 billion roubles (US$790 million) over the next 5 years into basic and applied quantum research carried out at leading Russian laboratories, the country’s deputy prime minister, Maxim Akimov, announced […]

Goldman Sachs with QC Ware to explore Quantum Computing

Goldman Sachs has teamed up with US startup QC Ware to explore how the nascent quantum computing technology could be used to speed up financial calculations and artificial-intelligence-based decision making.  QC Ware uses the cloud to […]

Groovenauts and D-Wave collaborate on hybrid Quantum Computing

Founded in 2012 by Eihiro Saishu and Kumiko Sasaki, Fukuoka-based Groovenauts is one of Japan’s preeminent quantum pioneers. The software company developed a cloud service called MAGELLAN BLOCKS in 2016 that enables companies across industries to use AI to […]

Quantum antenna by Thales

In the super conductivity lab, Thales engineers are researching the development of a quantum antenna that is smaller than a finger tip. Using the quantum phenomena known as the Josephson effect, the antenna will be […]

Amazon Braket: a paradigm shift

Amazon AWS announces new Quantum Computing Service (Amazon Braket) along with AWS Center for Quantum Computing and AWS Quantum Solutions Lab. It had been hardly a secret for weeks but now it’s disclosable. At Swiss […]

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Swiss Quantum Investor Club (SQIC) launched

The Swiss Quantum Investor Club (SQIC) connects investors (private persons, VCs, family offices and corporates) and business angels to Swiss early-stage quantum (mainly) and deep tech startups.

Xanadu gets grant from Darpa to test QML performance

Toronto-based quantum computing startup Xanadu announced today that it has secured a grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The startup, which provides both hardware and software-based solutions, says the grant will be used to […]

Atos partners with Zapata Computing

Atos and US-based Zapata Computing, a startup company for quantum applications, announced a global partnership to deliver an end-to-end quantum computing solution that combines Zapata’s software platform Orquestra™ with the Atos Quantum Learning Machine (QLM) to […]

Fermilab launches new institute for quantum science

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory announced the launch of the Fermilab Quantum Institute, which will bring all of the lab’s quantum science projects under one umbrella. The missions of this new institute […]

Archer announces progress on quantum chip

Archer is developing advanced materials to build disruptive technology, and these materials include carbon-based qubits processor for quantum computing that could potentially operate at room temperature. The 12CQ qubit processor chip is being built by the […]