The Weekly Quantum Digest: Money Keeps Rolling Into Quantum Startups
PsiQuantum gets a big funding boost for its quantum enterprise, Cambridge Quantum Computing targets carbon capture, and more in this edition of The Quantum Weekly. Spotlight Story: PsiQuantum Raises $215 Million with new $150m round led by Atomico “PsiQuantum have now raised a total of nearly a quarter of a billion dollars in venture capital […]
IBM, National University of Singapore to Partner on Quantum Computing Applications, Training
The National University of Singapore and IBM have announced a three-year collaboration in quantum computing, supported by Singapore’s Quantum Engineering Programme (QEP), according to the Centre for Quantum Technologies. The partnership will give researchers access to IBM’s quantum computers on the cloud. Officials say the collaboration is aimed at finding new ways to use […]
HYPRES Spin Out, Seeqc, raises $5m of new funding from M Ventures
Seeqc has announced funding of $5 Million from M Ventures, the strategic corporate venture capital arm of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany to develop commercially viable quantum computing systems for problem-specific applications. The M Ventures funding follows a $6.8 million seed round from investors including BlueYard Capital, Cambium, NewLab and the Partnership Fund for New York […]
Quantum Programming 101: QSVM Machine Learning Tutorial
Introduction In this tutorial we will explore how to implement a Quantum Support Vector Machine (QSVM) machine learning method on IBM’s Quantum computers using qiskit. What is a Support Vector Machine? A support vector machine is a supervised machine learning method that is trained using a dataset and will predict if a particular observation is […]
Cambridge Quantum Computing and Total to Collaborate on Quantum Algorithms Aimed at Managing Carbon
Cambridge Quantum Computing (CQC) announced today that they have entered into a multi-year partnership with Total S.A. to develop quantum algorithms and quantum computing solutions for advanced carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) technologies, according to a news release. The collaboration will use CQC’s expertise in quantum computing and quantum chemistry, including the utilization of […]
European Research Team Plans to Build a Better Quantum Annealer
A team of European quantum researchers and entrepreneurs plan to build and operate a 5-qubit quantum annealer prototype, according to a news release. AVaQus, which stands for (Annealing-based VAriational QUantum processorS), added that the aim of the project is to build a quantum computer with high connectivity, tunable interactions and long coherence times. The project, […]
TQD Exclusive: Interview with Quantum Physicist, Amara Katabarwa, of Zapata Computing
Afro-Americans have been sadly underrepresented in the STEM fields for as long as there have been records. QC has been no different. TQD talked to one physicist about his journey so far in the industry and also where he’s heading Quantum physicist Amara Katabarwa. Source: Zapata Computing Fragile Mind The STEM subjects get a bad rap […]
PsiQuantum Raises $215 Million with new $150m round led by Atomico
This article is an update to our report back in November last year. PsiQuantum have now raised a total of nearly a quarter of a billion dollars in venture capital funding according to Bloomberg. The latest round brings $150m of new capital which was led by Atomico, with participation from other VCs, like Founders Fund, […]
Quantum Hardware and Software Startups Combine Forces to Bring on Quantum Future
HQS Quantum Simulation (HQS) and Alpine Quantum Technologies (AQT) have entered a global strategic partnership, according to a company release. The companies will combine HQS’s experience in providing software to facilitate the upcoming revolution in computer-aided materials design with AQT’s know-how on ion-trap quantum computing. Predictive simulations are key to the development of materials, as […]
The Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology Launches Quantum Initiative
Editor’s Note: Jacob D. Biamonte is no longer affiliated with these projects. There is no indication that the projects are active. Hot on The Heels TQD recently published a post on entitled Is Russia’s Absence from the Quantum Computing Tech Space About to End? In the article, I discussed how Russia, a giant of technological innovation […]