PsiQuantum today announced a $10.8M contract with the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) in Rome, N.Y., continuing a partnership that began in 2022. This phase will give AFRL a design space for comparative quantum circuits on PsiQuantum’s circuit tapeout, part of its ongoing Omega quantum chipset manufacturing with GlobalFoundries. As AFRL’s hardware design partner, PsiQuantum will supply its high-performance Barium Titanate (BTO) Electro-Optic phase shifters and integrate BTO into AFRL-designed optical circuits. PsiQuantum’s 300mm BTO material is believed to be the world’s highest-performing electro-switch material. The company will also provide essential quantum circuit components. Once designed, constructed, and screened for performance, the company will deliver these completed chips to AFRL, who will then validate their capabilities to address other Air Force use cases.

PsiQuantum today announces Omega, a quantum photonic chipset purpose-built for utility-scale quantum computing. Featured in a newly published paper in Nature, the chipset contains all the advanced components required to build million-qubit-scale quantum computers and deliver on the profoundly world-changing promise of this technology. Every photonic component is demonstrated with beyond-state-of-the-art performance. The paper shows high-fidelity qubit operations, and a simple, long-range chip-to-chip qubit interconnect – a key enabler to scale that has remained challenging for other technologies. The chips are made in a high-volume semiconductor fab, representing a new level of technical maturity and scale in a field that is often thought of as being confined to research labs. PsiQuantum will break ground this year on two datacenter-sized Quantum Compute Centers in Brisbane, Australia and Chicago, Illinois.

siQuantum today announced a far-reaching partnership with the State of Illinois, Cook County, and the City of Chicago to build the first US-based utility-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computer at the former US Steel South Works property in the City of Chicago. Under this agreement PsiQuantum will anchor the newly established Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park (IQMP) which will catalyze the state’s highly developed quantum ecosystem, including the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), the University of Chicago, the Chicago Quantum Exchange, Argonne and Fermi national labs and DARPA, the US Department of Defense’s Advanced Research Project Agency and others.

Iceberg Quantum today announced its launch, a $2 million pre-seed funding round, and a partnership with PsiQuantum. The company is developing fault-tolerant quantum computing architectures based on LDPC codes, with the goal of accelerating the path to useful quantum computing using significantly less hardware.

Jacobs was selected by PsiQuantum to deliver master planning, schematic design, and owner's engineer services for what is poised to be one of the world's first utility-scale, fault tolerant quantum computers in Brisbane, Australia.

PsiQuantum today announced several updates across its operations in Queensland as the company scales up its operations heading into 2025. The company opened its new Asia-Pacific HQ in Brisbane’s City Centre with PsiQuantum’s Co-Founder and Chief Architect Terry Rudolph sharing the company’s latest technical progress and its alignment with the operations on the ground in Brisbane.

PsiQuantum has successfully completed the research & development viability phase of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) Utility-Scale Quantum Computing program and is now entering the validation phase of the program. In this final phase, DARPA will evaluate PsiQuantum’s utility scale system design, component and system performance to specification, and application use cases and economic utility. This next and final phase of work marks another significant milestone in PsiQuantum's roadmap to develop the world’s first utility-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computers on the fastest timeline possible.

PsiQuantum welcomed UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Chancellor Rachel Reeves for a visit to its research and development facilities at Sci-Tech Daresbury. Co-founder & CEO Prof. Jeremy O’Brien, along with Co-founder & Chief Technologist Mark Thompson, led the tour, providing insight into the company’s work in quantum computing and how the testing and development of prototype systems in Daresbury plays a critical role in the effort to build the first utility-scale quantum computers. The Prime Minister and Chancellor also had the opportunity to meet PsiQuantum’s engineers and apprentices.

PsiQuantum is set to expand its operations in Queensland, with the opening of a ‘Test & Characterization’ lab at Griffith University’s Nathan Campus in Brisbane. The lab space at Griffith’s Nathan Campus will be renovated with PsiQuantum expecting to move into the new space in early 2025.

The consortium of Queensland universities includes The University of Queensland, Griffith, University, Queensland University of Technology, University of Southern Queensland and the University of the Sunshine Coast.