If we are to create ‘next-gen’ AI that takes full advantage of the power of quantum computers, we need to start with quantum native transformers. Today we announce yet again that Quantinuum continues to lead by demonstrating concrete progress — advancing from theoretical models to real quantum deployment.

The future of AI won't be built on yesterday’s tech. If we're serious about creating next-generation AI that unlocks the full promise of quantum computing, then we must build quantum-native models—designed for quantum, from the ground up.

Around this time last year, we introduced Quixer, a state-of-the-art quantum-native transformer. Today, we’re thrilled to announce a major milestone: one year on, Quixer is now running natively on quantum hardware.

Why this matters: Quantum AI, born native

This marks a turning point for the industry: realizing quantum-native AI opens a world of possibilities.

Classical transformers revolutionized AI. They power everything from ChatGPT to real-time translation, computer vision, drug discovery, and algorithmic trading. Now, Quixer sets the stage for a similar leap — but for quantum-native computation. Because quantum computers differ fundamentally from classical computers, we expect a whole new host of valuable applications to emerge.  

Achieving that future requires models that are efficient, scalable, and actually run on today’s quantum hardware.

That’s what we’ve built.

What makes Quixer different?

Until Quixer, quantum transformers were the result of a brute force “copy-paste” approach: taking the math from a classical model and putting it onto a quantum circuit. However, this approach does not account for the considerable differences between quantum and classical architectures, leading to substantial resource requirements.

Quixer is different: it’s not a translation – it's an innovation.

With Quixer, our team introduced an explicitly quantum transformer, built from the ground up using quantum algorithmic primitives. Because Quixer is tailored for quantum circuits, it's more resource efficient than most competing approaches.

As quantum computing advances toward fault tolerance, Quixer is built to scale with it.

What’s next for Quixer?

We’ve already deployed Quixer on real-world data: genomic sequence analysis, a high-impact classification task in biotech. We're happy to report that its performance is already approaching that of classical models, even in this first implementation.

This is just the beginning.

Looking ahead, we’ll explore using Quixer anywhere classical transformers have proven to be useful; such as language modeling, image classification, quantum chemistry, and beyond. More excitingly, we expect use cases to emerge that are quantum-specific, impossible on classical hardware.

This milestone isn’t just about one model. It’s a signal that the quantum AI era has begun, and that Quantinuum is leading the charge with real results, not empty hype.

Stay tuned. The revolution is only getting started.

Our team is participating in ISC High Performance 2025 (ISC 2025) from June 10-13 in Hamburg, Germany!

As quantum computing accelerates, so does the urgency to integrate its capabilities into today’s high-performance computing (HPC) and AI environments. At ISC 2025, meet the Quantinuum team to learn how the highest performing quantum systems on the market, combined with advanced software and powerful collaborations, are helping organizations take the next step in their compute strategy.

Quantinuum is leading the industry across every major vector: performance, hybrid integration, scientific innovation, global collaboration and ease of access.

• Our industry-leading quantum computer holds the record for performance with a Quantum Volume of 2²³ = 8,388,608 and the highest fidelity on a commercially available QPU available to our users every time they access our systems.
• Our systems have been validated by a #1 ranking against competitors in a recent benchmarking study by Jülich Research Centre.
• We’ve laid out a clear roadmap to reach universal, fully fault-tolerant quantum computing by the end of the decade and will launch our next-generation system, Helios, later this year.
• We are advancing real-world hybrid compute with partners such as RIKEN, NVIDIA, SoftBank, STFC Hartree Center and are pioneering applications such as our own GenQAI framework.

Exhibit Hall

From June 10–13, in Hamburg, Germany, visit us at Booth B40 in the Exhibition Hall or attend one of our technical talks to explore how our quantum technologies are pushing the boundaries of what’s possible across HPC.

Presentations & Demos

Throughout ISC, our team will present on the most important topics in HPC and quantum computing integration—from near-term hybrid use cases to hardware innovations and future roadmaps.

Multicore World Networking Event

• ‍Monday, June 9 | 7:00pm – 9:00 PM at Hofbräu Wirtshaus Esplanade
  ‍In partnership with Multicore World, join us for a Quantinuum-sponsored Happy Hour to explore the present and future of quantum computing with Quantinuum CCO, Dr. Nash Palaniswamy, and network with our team.
  Register here

H1 x CUDA-Q Demonstration

• ‍All Week at Booth B40
  ‍We’re showcasing a live demonstration of NVIDIA’s CUDA-Q platform running on Quantinuum’s industry-leading quantum hardware. This new integration paves the way for hybrid compute solutions in optimization, AI, and chemistry.
  ‍Register for a demo

HPC Solutions Forum

• ‍Wednesday, June 11 | 2:20 – 2:40 PM
  ‍“Enabling Scientific Discovery with Generative Quantum AI” – Presented by Maud Einhorn, Technical Account Executive at Quantinuum, discover how hybrid quantum-classical workflows are powering novel use cases in scientific discovery.

See You There!

Whether you're exploring hybrid solutions today or planning for large-scale quantum deployment tomorrow, ISC 2025 is the place to begin the conversation.

We look forward to seeing you in Hamburg!

Quantinuum has once again raised the bar—setting a record in teleportation, and advancing our leadership in the race toward universal fault-tolerant quantum computing.

Last year, we published a paper in Science demonstrating the first-ever fault-tolerant teleportation of a logical qubit. At the time, we outlined how crucial teleportation is to realize large-scale fault tolerant quantum computers. Given the high degree of system performance and capabilities required to run the protocol (e.g., multiple qubits, high-fidelity state-preparation, entangling operations, mid-circuit measurement, etc.), teleportation is recognized as an excellent measure of system maturity.

Today we’re building on last year’s breakthrough, having recently achieved a record logical teleportation fidelity of 99.82% – up from 97.5% in last year’s result. What’s more, our logical qubit teleportation fidelity now exceeds our physical qubit teleportation fidelity, passing the break-even point that establishes our H2 system as the gold standard for complex quantum operations.

This progress reflects the strength and flexibility of our Quantum Charge Coupled Device (QCCD) architecture. The native high fidelity of our QCCD architecture enables us to perform highly complex demonstrations like this that nobody else has yet to match. Further, our ability to perform conditional logic and real-time decoding was crucial for implementing the Steane error correction code used in this work, and our all-to-all connectivity was essential for performing the high-fidelity transversal gates that drove the protocol.

Teleportation schemes like this allow us to “trade space for time,” meaning that we can do quantum error correction more quickly, reducing our time to solution. Additionally, teleportation enables long-range communication during logical computation, which translates to higher connectivity in logical algorithms, improving computational power.

This demonstration underscores our ongoing commitment to reducing logical error rates, which is critical for realizing the promise of quantum computing. Quantinuum continues to lead in quantum hardware performance, algorithms, and error correction—and we’ll extend our leadership come the launch of our next generation system, Helios, in just a matter of months.

By Bob Coecke and Dimitri Kartsaklis

Introduction

Today we announce the next generation of λambeq , Quantinuum’s quantum natural language processing (QNLP) package.

Incorporating recent developments in both quantum NLP and quantum hardware, λambeq Gen II allows users not only to model the semantics of natural language (in terms of vectors and tensors), but to convert linguistic structures and meaning directly into quantum circuits for real quantum hardware.

Five years ago, our team reported the first realization of Quantum Natural Language Processing (QNLP). In their work, the team realized that there is a direct correspondence between the meanings of words and quantum states, and between grammatical structures and quantum entanglement. As that article put it: “Language is effectively quantum native”.

Our team realized an NLP task on quantum hardware and provided the data and code via a GitHub repository, attracting the interest of a then-nascent quantum NLP community, which has since grown around successive releases of λambeq. We released it 18 months later, supported by a research paper on the arXiv.

Λambeq: an open-source python library that turns sentences into quantum circuits, and then feeds these to quantum computers subject to VQC methodologies. Initial release in October 2021 arXiv:2110.04236

From that moment onwards, anyone could play around with QNLP on the then freely available quantum hardware. Our λambeq software has been downloaded over 50,000 times, and the user community is supported by an active Discord page, where practitioners can interact with each other and with our development team.  

The QNLP Back-Story

In order to demonstrate that QNLP was possible, even on the hardware available in 2021, we focused exclusively on small noisy quantum computers. Our motivation was to produce some exploratory findings, looking for a potential quantum advantage for natural language processing using quantum hardware. We published our original scientific work in 2016, detailing a quadratic speedup over classical computers (in certain circumstances). We are strongly convinced that there is a lot more potential than indicated in that paper.

That first realization of QNLP marked a shift away from brute-force machine learning, which has now taken the world by storm in the shape of large language models (LLMs) running on algorithms called “transformers”.

Instead of the transformer approach, we decoded linguistic structure using a compositional theory of meaning. With deep roots in computational linguistics, our approach was inspired by research into compositional linguistic algorithms, and their resemblance to other quantum primitives such as quantum teleportation. As we continued our work, it became clear that our approach reduced training requirements by relying on a natural relationship between linguistic structure and quantum structure, offering near-term QNLP in practice.

Embedding recent progress in λambeq Gen II

We haven’t sat still, and neither have the teams working in the field of quantum hardware. Quantinuum’s stack now performs at a level we only dreamed of in 2020. While we look forward to continued progress on the hardware front, we are getting ahead of these future developments by shifting the focus in our algorithms and software packages, to ensure we and λambeq’s users are ready to chase far more ambitious goals!

We moved away from the compositional theory of meaning that was the focus of our early experiments, called DisCoCat, to a new mathematical foundation called DisCoCirc. This enabled us to explore the relationship between text generation and text circuits, concluding that “text circuits are generative for text”.

Formally speaking, DisCoCirc embraces substantially more compositional structure present in language than DisCoCat does, and that pays off in many ways:

• Firstly, the new theoretical backbone enables one to compose the structure of sentences into text structure, so we can now deal with large texts.
• Secondly, the compositional structure of language is represented in a compressed manner, that, in fact, makes the formalism language-neutral, as reported in this blog post.
• Thirdly, the augmented compositional linguistic structure, together with the requirement of learnability, makes a quantum model now canonical, and we now have solid theoretical evidence for genuine enhanced performance on quantum hardware, as shown in this arXiv paper.  
• Fourthly, the problems associated with trainability of quantum machine learning models vanish, thanks to compositional generalization, which was the subject of this paper.
• Lastly, and surely not least, we reported on the achievement of compositional interpretability and explored the myriad ways that it supports explainable AI (XAI), which we also discussed extensively in this blog post.

Today, our users can benefit from these recent developments with the release λambeq Gen II. Our open-source tools have always benefited from the attention and feedback we receive from our users. Please give it a try, and we look forward to hearing your feedback on λambeq Gen II.

Enjoy!

We're announcing the world’s first scalable, error-corrected, end-to-end computational chemistry workflow. With this, we are entering the future of computational chemistry.

Quantum computers are uniquely equipped to perform the complex computations that describe chemical reactions – computations that are so complex they are impossible even with the world’s most powerful supercomputers.

However, realizing this potential is a herculean task: one must first build a large-scale, universal, fully fault-tolerant quantum computer – something nobody in our industry has done yet. We are the farthest along that path, as our roadmap, and our robust body of research, proves. At the moment, we have the world’s most powerful quantum processors, and are moving quickly towards universal fault tolerance. Our commitment to building the best quantum computers is proven again and again in our world-leading results.

While we do the work to build the world’s best quantum computers, we aren’t waiting to develop their applications. We have teams working right now on making sure that we hit the ground running with each new hardware generation. In fact, our team has just taken a huge leap forward for computational chemistry using our System Model H2.

In our latest paper, we have announced the first-ever demonstration of a scalable, end-to-end workflow for simulating chemical systems with quantum error correction (QEC). This milestone shows that quantum computing will play an essential role, in tandem with HPC and AI, in unlocking new frontiers in scientific discovery.

In the paper, we showcase the first practical combination of quantum phase estimation (QPE) with logical qubits for molecular energy calculations – an essential step toward fault-tolerant quantum simulations. It builds on our previous work implementing quantum error detection with QPE and marks a critical step toward achieving quantum advantage in chemistry.  

By demonstrating this end-to-end workflow on our H2 quantum computer using our state-of-the-art chemistry platform InQuanto™, we are proving that quantum error-corrected chemistry simulations are not only feasible, but also scalable and —crucially—implementable in our quantum computing stack.

This work sets key benchmarks on the path to fully fault-tolerant quantum simulations. Building such capabilities into an industrial workflow will be a milestone for quantum computing, and the demonstration reported here represents a new high-water mark as we continue to lead the global industry in pushing towards universal fault-tolerant computers capable of widespread scientific and commercial advantage.  

As we look ahead, this workflow will serve as the foundation for future quantum-HPC integration, enabling chemistry simulations that are impossible today.

Showcasing Quantinuum’s Full-Stack Advantage

Today’s achievement wouldn’t be possible without the Quantinuum’s full stack approach. Our vertical integration - from hardware to software to applications - ensures that each layer works together seamlessly.  

Our H2 quantum computer, based on the scalable QCCD architecture with its unique combination of high-fidelity operations, all-to-all connectivity, mid-circuit measurements and conditional logic, enabled us to run more complex quantum computing simulations than previously possible. The work also leverages Quantinuum’s real-time QEC decoding capability and benefitted from the quantum error correction advantages also provided by QCCD.

We will make this workflow available to customers via InQuanto, our quantum chemistry platform, allowing users to easily replicate and build upon this work. The integration of high-quality quantum computing hardware with sophisticated software creates a robust environment for iterating and accelerating breakthroughs in fields like chemistry and materials science.

A Collaborative Future: The Role of AI and Supercomputing

Achieving quantum advantage in chemistry will require more than just quantum hardware; it will require a synergistic approach that combines such quantum computing workflows demonstrated here with classical supercomputing and AI. Our strategic partnerships with leading supercomputing providers – with Quantinuum being selected as a founding collaborator for NVIDIA’s Accelerated Quantum Research Center – as well as our commitment to exploring generative quantum AI, place us in a unique position to maximize the benefit of quantum computing, and supercharge quantum advantage with the integration of classical supercomputing and AI.

Conclusion

Quantum computing holds immense potential for transforming industries across the globe. Our work today experimentally demonstrates the first complete and scalable quantum chemistry simulation, showing that the long-awaited quantum advantage in simulating chemical systems is not only possible, but within reach. With the development of new error correction techniques and the continued advancement of our quantum hardware and software we are paving the way for a future where quantum simulations can address challenges that are impossible today. Quantinuum’s ongoing collaborations with HPC providers and its exploration of AI-driven quantum techniques position our company to capitalize on this trifecta of computing power and achieve meaningful breakthroughs in quantum chemistry and beyond.

We encourage you to explore this breakthrough further by reading our latest research on arXiv and try out the Python code for yourself.

I continue to be inspired by our team's pioneering efforts to redefine what’s possible through quantum computing. With more than 550 dedicated employees, we’re constantly pushing the boundaries to uncover meaningful applications for this transformative technology.

This week marked one of my proudest moments: the announcement of a joint venture with Al Rabban Capital to accelerate the commercial adoption of quantum technology in Qatar and the Gulf region. This partnership lays the groundwork for up to USD $1 billion in investment from Qatar over the next decade in Quantinuum’s state-of-the-art quantum technologies, co-development of quantum computing applications tailored to regional needs, and workforce development. This collaboration is a major step forward in our strategy to expand our commercial reach through long-term, strategic alliances that foster economic growth in both the U.S. and Qatar.

I had the unique opportunity to attend a business roundtable in Doha with President Trump, U.S. and Qatari policymakers, and other industry leaders. The conversation centered on the importance of U.S.-Qatari relations and the role of shared commercial interests in strengthening that bond.

A recurring theme was innovation in Artificial Intelligence (AI), reinforcing the role that hybrid quantum-classical systems will play in enhancing AI capabilities across sectors. By integrating quantum computing, AI, and high-performance computing, we can unlock powerful new use cases critical to economic growth and national security. 

We also addressed the growing energy demands of AI-powered data centers. Quantum computing offers a potential path forward here, as well. Our H2-1 system has demonstrated an estimated 30,000x reduction in power consumption compared to classical supercomputers, making it a highly efficient tool for solving complex computational challenges.

What struck me most about the conversations in Qatar was the emphasis on cooperation over competition. While quantum is often framed as a race, our partnership with Al Rabban Capital underscores the value of cross-border collaboration. As I noted in a recent Time Magazine article co-authored with Honeywell CEO Vimal Kapur, quantum computing isn’t just a technology—it’s a national capability. Countries that lead will shape how it is regulated, protected, and deployed. Our joint venture and this week’s dialogue reaffirm that both the U.S. and Qatar are taking the necessary first steps to lead in this space. Yet much work remains.

I believe we’re witnessing the emergence of a new kind of global alliance—one rooted not just in trade, but in shared technological advancement. Quantum computing holds the promise to unlock innovative solutions that will tackle challenges that have long been beyond reach. Realizing that promise will require visionary leadership, global collaboration, and a bold commitment to shaping the future together.

I was honored to attend today’s roundtable during the President’s State Visit to Qatar and to see our announcement featured as part of that engagement. This milestone reflects a shared commitment by the U.S. and Qatar to strengthen strategic ties, spur bilateral investment in future-defining industries, and foster technological leadership and shared prosperity. 

Quantinuum’s expansion into the Gulf region, starting with Qatar, follows our successful growth in the U.S., U.K., Europe and Indo-Pacific. We will continue working across borders and sectors to accelerate the commercial adoption of quantum computing and realize quantum’s full potential—for the benefit of all!

Details of the JV are available in this link, along with the official White House communication.

Onward and Upward,
Rajeeb Hazra