This week brought major funding and strategic milestones. In March 2025, VTT and IQM unveiled Europe’s first 50-qubit superconducting quantum computer in Finland with a €20.7 million government investment, fostering spin-offs like Arctic Instruments and SemiQon. The Spanish Government committed 67 million euros to Multiverse Computing for AI solutions, while Dutch startup QuantWare secured €20 million to expand its 3D VIO architecture. BMO Financial Group, with US$1.4 trillion in assets, plans to adopt quantum by late 2025, and Italy’s Ministry of University and Research opened public consultation on its National Strategy for Quantum Technologies. Research and product updates dominated headlines. NTT, the University of Tokyo, Kyushu University, and RIKEN announced a halved-qubit architecture. QCentroid launched its Quantum Computing Readiness Assessment Tool at MWC 2025, and Marco Roth and collaborators released AutoQML to automate QML pipelines. Microsoft showcased a Majorana-based fault-tolerance blueprint a few weeks ago, although Dan Vergano cautioned that robust evidence remains a concern. Overall, these advances, investments, and government plans illustrate growing momentum in 2025, bringing quantum closer to meaningful impact.
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This week brought major funding and strategic milestones. In March 2025, VTT and IQM unveiled Europe’s first 50-qubit superconducting quantum computer in Finland with a €20.7 million government investment, fostering spin-offs like Arctic Instruments and SemiQon. The Spanish Government committed 67 million euros to Multiverse Computing for AI solutions, while Dutch startup QuantWare secured €20 million to expand its 3D VIO architecture. BMO Financial Group, with US$1.4 trillion in assets, plans to adopt quantum by late 2025, and Italy’s Ministry of University and Research opened public consultation on its National Strategy for Quantum Technologies. Research and product updates dominated headlines. NTT, the University of Tokyo, Kyushu University, and RIKEN announced a halved-qubit architecture. QCentroid launched its Quantum Computing Readiness Assessment Tool at MWC 2025, and Marco Roth and collaborators released AutoQML to automate QML pipelines. Microsoft showcased a Majorana-based fault-tolerance blueprint a few weeks ago, although Dan Vergano cautioned that robust evidence remains a concern. Overall, these advances, investments, and government plans illustrate growing momentum in 2025, bringing quantum closer to meaningful impact.