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| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Quantum computing |
| Founded | 2022 |
| Founder | |
| Headquarters | |
| Website | https://qolab.ai |
Qolab, Inc. is a quantum computing hardware company founded in 2022 with the goal of creating a useful quantum computer. The company focuses on increasing the coherence of superconducting qubits through partnerships with the semiconductor industry.
History
[edit]Qolab was founded in 2022 by Alan Ho, John Martinis, and Robert McDermott. Previously, Martinis and Ho were leads of Google's Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab, and McDermott worked with Martinis in roles at NIST and UC-Santa Barbara.[1][2][3] McDermott is also currently a professor at UW-Madison where he currently runs a superconducting quantum computing group.[4]
Martinis and Ho helped lead the quantum supremacy experiment, the first demonstration of a quantum computer solving a problem infeasible for classical computers.[5] Martinis left Google in 2020, citing differing viewpoints on the trajectory of research.[6] In 2022, Qolab was founded as a means to explore a new approach to quantum computing based on large-scale cross-industry collaboration.
In December 2024, Qolab raised $16.0M in Series A funding.[7] The round was lead by Octave Ventures, and included additional investment from the Development Bank of Japan, Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, and Phoenix Venture Partners.
In April 2025, DARPA announced nearly 20 quantum computing groups advancing to Stage A of the Quantum Benchmarking Initiative,[8] an effort to verify and validate approaches which could produce a useful quantum computer by 2033.[9] Among the candidates is a consortium co-led by Qolab and Hewlett Packard Enterprise, whose members includes Applied Materials, Synopsys, Quantum Machines, 1QBit, and UW-Madison.[10][11][12]
This consortium, alongside contributions from NVIDIA, UC-Berkeley, Fermilab, USRA, NASA, University of Waterloo, and the Perimeter Institute, released a preprint position paper to ArXiv entitled How to Build a Quantum Supercomputer: Scaling from Hundreds to Millions of Qubits,[13] which details their approach to creating a utility-scale quantum computer.
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{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ "McDermott Lab". mcdermottgroup.physics.wisc.edu. Retrieved 2025-04-24.
- ^ Arute, Frank; Arya, Kunal; Babbush, Ryan; Bacon, Dave; Bardin, Joseph C.; Barends, Rami; Biswas, Rupak; Boixo, Sergio; Brandao, Fernando G. S. L.; Buell, David A.; Burkett, Brian; Chen, Yu; Chen, Zijun; Chiaro, Ben; Collins, Roberto (October 2019). "Quantum supremacy using a programmable superconducting processor". Nature. 574 (7779): 505–510. arXiv:1910.11333. Bibcode:2019Natur.574..505A. doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1666-5. ISSN 1476-4687. PMID 31645734.
- ^ Strategy, Moor Insights and. "Google's Top Quantum Scientist Explains In Detail Why He Resigned". Forbes. Retrieved 2025-01-07.
- ^ Flaherty, Nick (2024-12-30). "Qolab raises $16m for quantum supercomputer". eeNews Europe. Retrieved 2025-01-07.
- ^ "DARPA eyes companies targeting industrially useful quantum computers | DARPA". www.darpa.mil. Retrieved 2025-04-24.
- ^ "Quantum Benchmarking Initiative". www.darpa.mil. Retrieved 2025-04-24.
- ^ "Hewlett Packard Labs' Quantum Supercomputing Framework Selected for DARPA Quantum Benchmarking Initiative". HPCwire. Retrieved 2025-04-24.
- ^ "Hewlett Packard Labs' quantum supercomputing framework selected for DARPA Quantum Benchmarking Initiative". Hewlett Packard Enterprise. 2025-04-03. Retrieved 2025-04-24.
- ^ "Qolab Spearheads Hardware Development for DARPA's Quantum Benchmark Initiative". Qolab. 2025-04-10. Retrieved 2025-04-24.
- ^ Mohseni, Masoud; Scherer, Artur; Johnson, K. Grace; Wertheim, Oded; Otten, Matthew; Aadit, Navid Anjum; Alexeev, Yuri; Bresniker, Kirk M.; Camsari, Kerem Y. (2025-01-31), How to Build a Quantum Supercomputer: Scaling from Hundreds to Millions of Qubits, arXiv:2411.10406
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