DARPA Announces Stage A Quantum Benchmarking Initiative Participants

(April 3, 2025) DARPA’s Quantum Benchmarking Initiative (QBI) has identified a cohort of companies who will characterize their unique concepts for creating a useful, fault-tolerant quantum computer within a decade. QBI, which kicked off in July 2024, aims to determine whether it’s possible to build such a computer much faster than conventional predictions. Specifically, QBI is designed to rigorously verify and validate whether any quantum computing approach can achieve utility-scale operation — meaning its computational value exceeds its cost — by the year 2033. Read the full announcement from DARPA at: www.darpa.mil/news/2025/companies-targeting-quantum-computers For more information on QBI, visit: www.darpa.mil/QBI