PsiQuantum

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PsiQuantum, Corp.
Company type Private
Industry Quantum computing
Founded2016;8 years ago (2016) in Palo Alto, California
Founders
Headquarters
Palo Alto, California, US
Key people
  • Jeremy O'Brien (CEO) [1]
  • Terry Rudolph (chief architect) [1]
Number of employees
280 (2024) [2]
Website psiquantum.com

PsiQuantum, Corp. (formerly PsiQ) [3] is an American quantum computing company based in Palo Alto, California. It is developing a general-purpose silicon photonic quantum computer. [4] [5] [6]

History

PsiQuantum was co-founded in 2016 by Jeremy O'Brien, Terry Rudolph, Peter Shadbolt, and Mark Thompson. They are or were professors and researchers at the University of Bristol and Imperial College London, England. [7] [8]

As of July 2021, PsiQuantum was reported to have raised $665 million from investors at a valuation of $3.15 billion. [1] Its investors include BlackRock, Baillie Gifford, and Microsoft's venture fund M12.

In 2022, PsiQuantum and GlobalFoundries received U.S. federal funding for quantum computer research and development. [9] [10] [11] PsiQuantum also entered into a collaboration with the Air Force Research Laboratory. [12] [13]

In 2023, DARPA selected PsiQuantum as one of the companies to receive funding under its Underexplored Systems for Utility-Scale Quantum Computing (US2QC) program. [14] The UK Government also provided funding for PsiQuantum to open a facility in the UK. [15] [16] In 2024, the Australian government announced a A$940 million investment into the company via share purchases, grants and loans. [2] In the wake of the announcement, O'Brien stated that the aim of the company was to have a functioning quantum computer by 2029. Crikey's political editor, Bernard Keane, noted that the company had previously put forward a 2025 deadline. [17] Bernard and other commentators also claimed the selection process by the Australian government lacked transparency. [17] [18]

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  10. ↑ staff (2022-04-08). "$25M Federal Funding for Quantum R&D for GlobalFoundries and PsiQuantum". High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC. Retrieved 2023-12-25.
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