QuintessenceLabs has secured a $15M investment from the National Reconstruction Fund Corporation in a $20M round, complemented by $18.5M in federal funding for the Australian Centre for Quantum Growth. Sparrow quantum got funding from the Novo Foundation. Three Canadian firms—Xanadu, Photonic, and Nord Quantique—could each receive up to $316M under DARPA’s Quantum Benchmarking Initiative, while India’s first 6-qubit quantum computer at TIFR is backed by DRDO. China’s Anhui Quantum Computing Engineering Research Center fine-tuned a billion-parameter AI model on their 72-qubit Origin Wukong, achieving a 15% loss reduction (Note: This does not mean they have trained an LLM with quantum!!!), and Northeastern University engineers Cristian Cassella and Marvin Onabajo are developing CMOS-based chips projected to use “10 times less power.” Meanwhile, authors Ananth Kaushik et al. ran a MAL-VQA quantum algorithm on IonQ’s Aria and Forte, and Anuj Apte’s team demonstrated an iterative interpolation technique for QAOA with over 1000 layers. Rusty Flint showcased a QKD network with efficient post-quantum cryptography. On the PQC side OpenSSL 3.5 was introduced with new QUIC features. Russ Fein compiled fantastic learning resources to get into the field.
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QuintessenceLabs has secured a $15M investment from the National Reconstruction Fund Corporation in a $20M round, complemented by $18.5M in federal funding for the Australian Centre for Quantum Growth. Sparrow quantum got funding from the Novo Foundation. Three Canadian firms—Xanadu, Photonic, and Nord Quantique—could each receive up to $316M under DARPA’s Quantum Benchmarking Initiative, while India’s first 6-qubit quantum computer at TIFR is backed by DRDO. China’s Anhui Quantum Computing Engineering Research Center fine-tuned a billion-parameter AI model on their 72-qubit Origin Wukong, achieving a 15% loss reduction (Note: This does not mean they have trained an LLM with quantum!!!), and Northeastern University engineers Cristian Cassella and Marvin Onabajo are developing CMOS-based chips projected to use “10 times less power.” Meanwhile, authors Ananth Kaushik et al. ran a MAL-VQA quantum algorithm on IonQ’s Aria and Forte, and Anuj Apte’s team demonstrated an iterative interpolation technique for QAOA with over 1000 layers. Rusty Flint showcased a QKD network with efficient post-quantum cryptography. On the PQC side OpenSSL 3.5 was introduced with new QUIC features. Russ Fein compiled fantastic learning resources to get into the field.