DARPA Announces Four Companies Advancing to Final Stage of Its Quantum Benchmarking Initiative

DARPA just picked four early winners for its quantum initiative

The quantum computing world got a jolt when the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced, after market close yesterday, a list of companies selected to advance to Stage C of its Quantum Benchmarking Initiative (QBI), widely considered to be the most rigorous and objective vetting program for cutting-edge quantum hardware. Last November, DARPA selected 11 companies to enter the second phase of the initiative, Stage B. Since the…

DARPA announces four companies advancing to final stage of its Quantum Benchmarking Initiative

Atom Computing, Diraq, IBM, and IonQ have all progressed to Stage C of the program

DARPA Advances IBM, IonQ, Two Rivals to Final Quantum Computing Tests

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has selected four quantum computing companies for the final stage of its Quantum Benchmarking Initiative (QBI), an independent evaluation of whether their technologies can deliver commercially useful quantum computing. The four companies, IBM, IonQ, Atom Computing and Diraq, will undergo extensive testing by DARPA researchers, who will evaluate their

IBM Moves to DARPA Quantum Benchmarking Initiative Stage C, Putting Its Starling Hardware Under Test

IBM has announced that DARPA has selected it for Stage C, the third phase of the Quantum Benchmarking Initiative (QBI). DARPA launched QBI in 2024 to determine whether an industrially useful fault-tolerant quantum computer can be built by 2033, and it defines such a system as one whose computational value exceeds its cost. In Stage C, DARPA’s independent verification and validation (IV&V) team moves past paper plans to test IBM’s hardware, techn…

IBM Advances to Final Stage of DARPA Quantum Computing Challenge

IBM advances to the final stage of DARPA's Quantum Benchmarking Initiative, putting its fault-tolerant quantum computing roadmap under closer technical scrutiny.

IBM advances to Stage C in DARPA quantum computer program

Technology company IBM qualified for the third evaluation phase of DARPA's Quantum Benchmarking Initiative to test hardware architectures for fault-tolerant quantum computing.