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Who is building the quantum future.

Sixteen companies. Seven radically different bets on how to build a quantum computer. One race that will define the next century of computing.

SuperconductingEst. 1911
IBM
IBM Quantum

The pioneer that put quantum computers on the cloud and races to scale superconducting qubits into the thousands.

SuperconductingEst. 1998
Google
Google Quantum AI

Claimed the first 'quantum supremacy' moment and is now building error-corrected logical qubits with its Willow chip.

Trapped IonEst. 2015
IonQ
IonQ

Trapped-ion pioneer whose ultra-clean qubits deliver record fidelity — and the first pure-play quantum company to IPO.

Trapped IonEst. 2021
Quantinuum
Quantinuum

Honeywell-born trapped-ion leader holding the world record for quantum volume and demonstrating logical qubits at scale.

PhotonicEst. 2016
PsiQuantum
PsiQuantum

Skipping the demos and going straight for a million-qubit photonic machine — built on silicon in a real semiconductor fab.

AnnealingEst. 1999
D-Wave
D-Wave

The world's first commercial quantum company, betting on quantum annealing to solve massive optimization problems today.

SuperconductingEst. 2013
Rigetti
Rigetti

Full-stack superconducting quantum builder that fabricates its own chips and offers them through the cloud.

Neutral AtomEst. 2018
Atom
Atom Computing

First to cross the 1,000-qubit threshold using neutral atoms held in place by lasers — with atoms that can live for minutes.

Neutral AtomEst. 2018
QuEra
QuEra

Harvard/MIT spinoff running neutral-atom processors and demonstrating some of the largest logical-qubit experiments to date.

PhotonicEst. 2016
Xanadu
Xanadu

Photonic quantum computing on room-temperature silicon chips — accessible from anywhere through its PennyLane software.

Neutral AtomEst. 2019
Pasqal
Pasqal

French neutral-atom company arranging hundreds of atoms into programmable geometries for real industrial pilots.

TopologicalEst. 1975
Microsoft
Microsoft Azure Quantum

Chasing the holy grail — topological qubits — while offering the broadest cloud marketplace of quantum hardware today.

Cloud PlatformEst. 2019
AWS
Amazon Braket

AWS's fully managed quantum service — one console, many hardware backends, and a Center for Quantum Networking behind it.

SuperconductingEst. 1968
Intel
Intel Quantum

Building silicon spin qubits that could ride the same manufacturing miracle that made classical chips ubiquitous.

Cloud PlatformEst. 1993
NVIDIA
Nvidia CUDA-Q

Not a hardware maker — but the GPU muscle and CUDA-Q platform that powers hybrid quantum-classical simulation everywhere.

SuperconductingEst. 2020
Alice&Bob
Alice & Bob

Paris-based startup building 'cat qubits' that suppress errors in hardware, aiming for a fault-tolerant machine with far fewer qubits.

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