Xanadu has received provisional approval for up to $10 million in additional funding under DARPA’s Quantum Benchmarking Initiative, accelerating R&D on photonic quantum computers.
Infleqtion will use £9 million from Innovate UK to advance testing of its quantum RF direction-finding product Quantum Spectrum-DF in operational environments.
FAU received a $200,000 cooperative agreement from NIST to build a hands-on workforce development program with D‑Wave covering quantum computing and critical infrastructure.
QIA will undertake 42 months of R&D aiming to connect city‑scale networks via quantum repeaters. Qblox will be responsible for the control systems.
OptQC has been selected for Tokyo’s corporate location support subsidy. It will expand its Toshima R&D hub to consolidate hardware, software and business development.
PsiQuantum has signed a formal agreement with the US Department of Commerce for a $100 million CHIPS and Science Act award. The funding will support development and US-based production of optical switches, single-photon detectors, and advanced packaging.
Yaqumo has been selected for NEDO’s components and materials development program. In collaboration with SCREEN, it will develop optical devices including high-speed SLMs, aiming for domestic production and module standardization.
Alice & Bob has joined the European doctoral network QuBriC, providing expertise in quantum error correction based on cat qubits.
D-Wave has received up to CAD 300,000 from Canada’s NRC to develop embedding algorithms for Advantage2’s Zephyr topology. Results are planned for integration into the Ocean SDK.
planqc, Saarland University, BMW and Infineon have launched an industrial optimization research project that combines quantum-driven problem reduction with classical algorithms.