Quantitative computing remains a bone of the holy cup in the world of technology: it is a great jump in computing power, but only if someone can know how to remove rift rates that prevent any scaling of technology. Now, one of the most promising quantum companies in Europe is to announce a large round of financing to help it work for a solution.
Alice and BobA start -up company in Paris raised a leader in the quantitative architecture of cats, raising 100 million euros ($ 104 million). It plans to use this series B to continue to work on building a “tolerant” quantum computer – accepting errors and working around them – based on Qubits Cat, which is the concept that the startup has already been cut for years. Alice & Bob believes that the first “useful” computer will be available by 2030.
“From The Go Go, Alice & Bob had a very clear vision of how to make quantum computers (and) the whole thing about tolerance with errors,” said CEO and co -founder Theo Peronin in an interview. “What we have seen in the entire industry over the past 12 to 18 months is really a complete transformation of our vision.”
The appetite for more computing power is at all level – a belief confirmed by major projects such as adherence to the 500 billion dollars AI Stargate AI Data Center in the United States and the huge increase in chip makers such as NVIDIA recently.
As Peronin sees, the traditional computing structure is a race that cannot be defended in the longer term, and that driver will be for more investment and work in building quantum computers, with their promise to more efficiency over more than the traditional advanced processors.
He said: “Computing has become the primary supplier of productivity, and the cumin is a potential change for games here.” “The game is on.”
This investment is led by French -supported French champions (FFC), AVP (Ax Venture Partners) and BPIFRANCE, which also participated in leading the A series of $ 30 million in 2022. While starting start does not reveal the evaluation, For some guidance, Riverland (Alice & Bob’s) was estimated at about $ 400 million last year and we understand from multiple sources that Alice & Bob in a similar evaluation, most likely between 300 million dollars and 400 million dollars.
The deal represents one of the largest rounds to start quantum computing in Europe, especially for the quantum industry, as it does not occur in a vacuum.
Some of the most prominent donations were included in August 2024, Riverland, which also builds a technique for correcting quantum errors and raising $ 75 million; See the quantum chips make up 30 million dollars earlier this month; and Quantum machines According to what was also reported from Israel in the process of collecting $ 100 million.
And perhaps the biggest, last year, amount (It was collected from Haniole, which merged with Cambridge quantity), raised $ 300 million of shares with a value of $ 5 billion. There is now He speaks Among them is in a list of $ 10 billion.
Meanwhile, Google had a boom in error removal in November 2024 with AlfafittThe artificial intelligence system, which he said could automatically define (there is no repair) errors in quantum accounts. Microsoft and Atom Computing promised that it would release a quantum pc as some time this year.
The starting name and Cat Qubit are the key to what you adopt. “Alice & Bob” is a reference to the two imaginative people who are often used as Native models For virtual thought experiences in areas such as encryption and quantum physics.
Alice & Bob building also has a theoretical reference. Instead of following ways to reduce malfunctions by throwing more quits in the problem (Qubits was the typical building building block for the quantum computing system), I created Alice & Bob with a structure called “Cat Qubit”. This is a sign of Cat Shrodenger And the idea of something in “two states” at the same time. Effectively, it accepts some defects (and thus “tolerance with error”) while repairing others.
As Peronnin describes it, “Cat Qubit is a special type of Qubit design that aims to correct errors directly at the hardware level – not all, half of them, precisely, but this is really the result of the Qubit cat. The built -in error.
Alice & Bob believes that this may be the key to making the quantity in commercial reality.
“The reality is at the heart of our discussion about the quantity in the investment industry,” said Francois Robnett, a partner at AVP. He said that while he was watching Alice & Bob for years, AVP did not want to invest before “because it was just research and development” like many others. But now, he said, with the structure of the quantum segment that seems to be able to support 48 Qubits, “We believe that the research and development stage has ended.”
He said that Francois Sharponier, a partner in BPIFRANCE, seconds, “Get rid of one of the two most dangerous” as Alice and Bob do, is the game changed to expand. “Of course, it is still a long -term marathon, but we are convinced that Alice and Bob will be in the race.”
