US firm gets $1.5M funding boost in race to build practical quantum computers

The US Department of Energy awarded BlueQubit and partners $1.5 million through Genesis Mission grants.

The project will use AI, quantum simulation, and decoder optimization to improve quantum error correction for fault-tolerant quantum computing.

Partners include Microsoft, Argonne and Sandia national labs, and several universities such as UC San Diego, Maryland, USC, and Virginia Tech.

Better error correction is a major step toward practical quantum computers for drug discovery, materials science, defense, and finance.