Rigetti Computing

Rigetti Wins $5.48M Air Force Award to Advance ABAA Quantum Chip Process

Rigetti Computing has been awarded a $5.48 million grant by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. The project focuses on advancing Rigetti’s Alternating-Bias Assisted Annealing (ABAA) process to address superconducting qubit defects. A consortium including Iowa State University and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory will collaborate on the research. The goal is to scale quantum computing technology through better chip fabrication techniques.

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April 29, 2025

Follow the Money…the Quantum Computing Goldrush (Part 5 of 8)

The fifth part of an eight part-series by Mr. Russ Fein, founder of The Quantum Leap. In this work Russ explains the phenomena of the quantum computing goldrush. The Quantum Leap is an up-and-coming blog journaling the race to quantum supremacy. Read the series here at The Qubit Report or find the complete series and more at, Quantumtech.blog. Because Quantum is Coming. Qubit

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January 25, 2022

Rigetti Awarded U.S. Department of Energy Contract to Develop Quantum Simulation for Fusion Energy

Rigetti Computing, a pioneer in full-stack quantum computing, has been selected to lead a quantum simulation project for fusion energy awarded by the Department of Energy (DoE). Rigetti will collaborate with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the University of Southern California on the three-year, $3.1 million project that will simulate plasma dynamics on Rigetti’s cloud-based quantum computers.

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November 5, 2021
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