Quantum Brilliance, an Australian start-up company focused on producing room-temperature miniaturized quantum computing products and solutions, has announced a massive $18 million USD funding for quantum research and development projects. Quantum Brilliance will use the funds to develop its international operations, provide customers with hardware and software, and improve manufacturing and fabrication procedures.
The company is seeking to miniaturize its technology further, as tiny as a semiconductor chip could possibly get, that can be utilized on any device and everywhere, allowing everyone to access realistic quantum computing.
Quantum Brilliance, together with its investors, Breakthrough Victoria, Main Sequence, Investible, Ultratech Capital, MA Financial, Jelix Ventures, Rampersand, and CM Equity, sees an enormous quantum computing market development in the following years.
The Quantum Brilliance technology
Quantum computers from Quantum Brilliance use synthetic diamonds to work at room temperature in various environments, including data centers, mobile devices, autonomous cars, and spacecraft. Quantum Brilliance’s devices do not require cryogenics, vacuum systems, or precise laser arrays. Thus, the company’s technology consumes far less power and may be installed onsite or at the edge.
Quantum Brilliance argues that their quantum computers’ tiny form factor, durable construction, and low power consumption will enable quantum computing to address more issues for more people. Quantum Brilliance’s technology provides a clear path to scale, allowing for the mass production of quantum computers. Quantum Brilliance thinks its quantum computers offer a clear path to corporate applications.
Breakthrough Victoria backs up Quantum Brilliance.
Breakthrough Victoria currently managing a $2 billion AUD sovereign investment fund for the Victorian government in Australia, with the goal of supporting future breakthrough ideas and technologies that will help solve significant global problems, create future industries, improve health and wellbeing, and deliver prosperity and long-term returns to Victoria over the next decade and beyond.
“We are actively investing in quantum technologies to establish Australia, and the state of Victoria, as a global player in this rapidly evolving sector. Quantum Brilliance’s vision of mass producible, room temperature, small form factor quantum computers aligns closely with our mandate to fund ideas and technology in Victoria that will help solve globally significant problems, and we see them as a true innovator in the quantum computing industry.”
Grant Dooley, CEO of Breakthrough Victoria.
Breakthrough Victoria’s investment expands on Quantum Brilliance’s existing presence in Victoria. In April 2022, Quantum Brilliance created the Research Hub for Diamond Quantum Materials in Victoria, Australia. This Hub was founded in collaboration with premier quantum diamond institutions La Trobe University and RMIT University in order to improve the processing capability of diamond-based quantum computers with methodologies that may be applied to large-scale manufacturing systems.
The company intends to grow the hub and continue collaborating with its research partners to offer industrial Ph.D. opportunities in Victoria to develop Australia’s next generation of talent.
Where is Quantum Brilliance now?
Quantum Brilliance now offers on-site quantum computing devices to customers. Customers and researchers can also use the company’s software development kit, which includes high-performance emulators, to design and test quantum applications for potential commercialization.
“Our technology is following the successful path of classical computers, where integrated semiconductor chips allowed the jump from large fragile mainframes to laptops and smartphones. Our small form factor, room temperature, low power devices are forging the same path. We are proud of our achievement in taking quantum computing from the lab to the data centre has been recognised by the investment community.”
Andrew Horsley, co-Founder and CTO of Quantum Brilliance.
Quantum Brilliance has global partnerships with governments, supercomputing centers, research organizations, and industries in the Americas, Europe, and Asia Pacific. Quantum Brilliance has also unveiled the installation of the world’s first room-temperature diamond-based quantum computer at the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre, as well as a collaboration with NVIDIA to speed the development of the world’s first hybrid quantum-classical computing platform.
