Atlantic Quantum is joining Google Quantum AI

Atlantic Quantum is a result of frontier research carried out at the Department of Microtechnology and Nanoscience and Wallenberg Centre for Quantum Technology, WACQT, at Chalmers University of Technology and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The company was formally spun out of Will Oliver’s Engineering Quantum Systems Group at MIT in 2022 – and was founded with the mission to build a quantum computer that could economically scale to address real-world problems.

“We now have the opportunity to accelerate progress alongside Google Quantum AI’s industry-leading superconducting qubit hardware,” says co-founder of Atlantic Quantum and CEO Bharath Kannan in a statement last night.

“It has been fantastic to help bring the company from its founding to a successful exit and I'm very excited for the future with this excellent group of people. I would like to extend a special personal thank you to my team at Atlantic Quantum AB in Gothenburg, and to the great research environment at Chalmers University of Technology, WACQT - Wallenberg Centre for Quantum Technology, Chalmers Ventures, says co-founder Jonas Bylander, Professor of Quantum Technology at the Department of Microtechnology and Nanoscience at Chalmers, in a LinkedIn post last night as the news broke.

Accelerates development of a large, error-corrected quantum computer 

Google Quantum AI was founded in 2012 with the mission to build quantum computing for otherwise unsolvable problems.

“Today, we’re excited to announce that the Atlantic Quantum team is joining Google. Atlantic Quantum is an MIT-founded startup that develops highly integrated quantum computing hardware. Its modular chip stack, which combines qubits and superconducting control electronics within the cold stage, will help Google Quantum AI more effectively scale our superconducting qubit hardware, and accelerate progress on our roadmap to a large error-corrected quantum computer and real-world applications,” says Hartmut Neven, Founder and Lead at Google Quantum AI in an official statement, and continues:  
“We’re delighted for Atlantic Quantum to join us as Google continues to invest in the future of quantum computing and deliver its benefits to society.”