Quantum software company Classiq announced yesterday that it had established a strategic partnership with Mphasis, an IT solution provider specializing in cloud and cognitive services. Through this strategic cooperation, both parties will jointly develop groundbreaking quantum solutions and are committed to accelerating the adoption of quantum solutions for enterprises by integrating them into their operations.

The German Aerospace Center's Quantum Computing Initiative (DLR QCI) announced yesterday that its BASIQ project, aimed at simulating battery materials using quantum computers, has welcomed two new partners. The bidding consortium of the consulting company D-fine and the quantum computer manufacturer Planqc will provide quantum algorithms and software solutions for solving partial differential equations in the field of lithium-ion batteries.

Shortly after the retirement of the IBM Quantum Lab service, IBM announced yesterday that it has partnered with OVHcloud, a cloud service provider, and Qbraid, a quantum software development cloud platform, as third-party providers of Jupyter notebook environments to meet the needs of users who wish to use Qiskit on the cloud.

Researchers from Cornell University have developed an optimization framework that integrates variational quantum circuits with classical optimization, which can reduce the energy consumption in large data centers handling artificial intelligence (AI) workload by 12.5% and reduce carbon emissions by up to 9.8%.