About
Taiyi Quantum, registered as Taiyi Quantum Life (Shanghai) Quantum Technology Co., Ltd. (太一量生（上海）量子科技有限公司), is a neutral-atom quantum computing company founded in January 2026 and based in the Xuhui District of Shanghai. Within two months of its founding it raised one of the largest early-stage rounds in China's neutral-atom sector. The company was started by Liu Hongbin, who serves as chairman and chief technology officer. Liu has more than twelve years of quantum computing experience and was previously the chief quantum architect at Microsoft, where he led work on the neutral-atom strategy and the collaboration with Atom Computing. The chief executive is Fang Zhenghao, a former managing partner with close to fifteen years investing in frontier technology. Taiyi has chosen ytterbium atoms for its qubits, a decision Liu describes as trading engineering difficulty for scientific advantage, since ytterbium offers faster gate operations, erasable errors, and a path to photonic interconnection in the telecom band. In March 2026 Taiyi announced an angel round of over 100 million yuan, roughly 15 million dollars, co-led by the Shanghai Future Industry Fund and iFlytek Venture Capital. Other backers include JinkoSolar Holdings, Galaxy General, Yabang Chemical, and Houxue Capital. The company says the money will go toward research and development, growing its team, and constructing its first quantum computer. Taiyi's stated roadmap aims to trap on the order of 50,000 atoms on a single platform and convert them into about 300 logical qubits over the coming years, targeting applications in cryptographic security, chemical and drug simulation, and quantum machine learning. As a company founded only months ago, Taiyi has not yet demonstrated working hardware or published peer-reviewed qubit results, so its qubit figures remain forward-looking targets rather than achievements.
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