Draft:Qolab

Qolab was founded in 2022 by Alan Ho, John Martinis, and Robert McDermott. Previously, Martinis and Ho were leads of Google's Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab, and McDermott worked with Martinis in roles at NIST and UC-Santa Barbara.{{Cite magazine |last=Finley |first=Klint |title=The Man Who Will Build Google's Elusive Quantum Computer |url=https://www.wired.com/2014/09/martinis/ |access-date=2025-04-24 |magazine=Wired |language=en-US |issn=1059-1028}}{{Cite web |last=#author.fullName} |title=Google's quantum supremacy algorithm has found its first practical use |url=https://www.newscientist.com/article/2227490-googles-quantum-supremacy-algorithm-has-found-its-first-practical-use/ |access-date=2025-04-24 |website=New Scientist |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/author/37086836744 |access-date=2025-04-24 |website=ieeexplore.ieee.org}} McDermott is also currently a professor at UW-Madison where he currently runs a superconducting quantum computing group.{{Cite web |title=McDermott Lab |url=https://mcdermottgroup.physics.wisc.edu/ |access-date=2025-04-24 |website=mcdermottgroup.physics.wisc.edu}}

Martinis and Ho helped lead the quantum supremacy experiment, the first demonstration of a quantum computer solving a problem infeasible for classical computers.{{Cite journal |last1=Arute |first1=Frank |last2=Arya |first2=Kunal |last3=Babbush |first3=Ryan |last4=Bacon |first4=Dave |last5=Bardin |first5=Joseph C. |last6=Barends |first6=Rami |last7=Biswas |first7=Rupak |last8=Boixo |first8=Sergio |last9=Brandao |first9=Fernando G. S. L. |last10=Buell |first10=David A. |last11=Burkett |first11=Brian |last12=Chen |first12=Yu |last13=Chen |first13=Zijun |last14=Chiaro |first14=Ben |last15=Collins |first15=Roberto |date=October 2019 |title=Quantum supremacy using a programmable superconducting processor |url=https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1666-5 |journal=Nature |language=en |volume=574 |issue=7779 |pages=505–510 |doi=10.1038/s41586-019-1666-5 |pmid=31645734 |arxiv=1910.11333 |bibcode=2019Natur.574..505A |issn=1476-4687}} Martinis left Google in 2020, citing differing viewpoints on the trajectory of research.{{Cite web |last=Strategy |first=Moor Insights and |title=Google's Top Quantum Scientist Explains In Detail Why He Resigned |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/moorinsights/2020/04/30/googles-top-quantum-scientist-explains-in-detail-why-he-resigned/ |access-date=2025-01-07 |website=Forbes |language=en}} In 2022, Qolab was founded as a means to explore a new approach to quantum computing based on large-scale cross-industry collaboration.

In December 2024, Qolab raised $16.0M in Series A funding.{{Cite web |last=Flaherty |first=Nick |date=2024-12-30 |title=Qolab raises $16m for quantum supercomputer |url=https://www.eenewseurope.com/en/qolab-raises-16m-for-quantum-supercomputer/ |access-date=2025-01-07 |website=eeNews Europe |language=en-US}} The round was lead by Octave Ventures, and included additional investment from the Development Bank of Japan, Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, and Phoenix Venture Partners.

In April 2025, DARPA announced nearly 20 quantum computing groups advancing to Stage A of the Quantum Benchmarking Initiative,{{Cite web |title=DARPA eyes companies targeting industrially useful quantum computers {{!}} DARPA |url=https://www.darpa.mil/news/2025/companies-targeting-quantum-computers |access-date=2025-04-24 |website=www.darpa.mil}} an effort to verify and validate approaches which could produce a useful quantum computer by 2033.{{Cite web |title=Quantum Benchmarking Initiative |url=https://www.darpa.mil/research/programs/quantum-benchmarking-initiative |access-date=2025-04-24 |website=www.darpa.mil}} Among the candidates is a consortium co-led by Qolab and Hewlett Packard Enterprise, whose members includes Applied Materials, Synopsys, Quantum Machines, 1QBit, and UW-Madison.{{Cite web |title=Hewlett Packard Labs' Quantum Supercomputing Framework Selected for DARPA Quantum Benchmarking Initiative |url=https://www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire/hewlett-packard-labs-quantum-supercomputing-framework-selected-for-darpa-quantum-benchmarking-initiative/ |access-date=2025-04-24 |website=HPCwire |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |date=2025-04-03 |title=Hewlett Packard Labs' quantum supercomputing framework selected for DARPA Quantum Benchmarking Initiative |url=https://www.hpe.com/us/en/newsroom/blog-post/2025/04/hewlett-packard-labs-quantum-supercomputing-framework-selected-for-darpa-quantum-benchmarking-initiative.html |access-date=2025-04-24 |website=Hewlett Packard Enterprise}}{{Cite web |last= |date=2025-04-10 |title=Qolab Spearheads Hardware Development for DARPA's Quantum Benchmark Initiative |url=https://qolab.ai/qolab-spearheads-hardware-development-for-darpas-quantum-benchmark-initiative/ |access-date=2025-04-24 |website=Qolab |language=en-US}}

This consortium, alongside contributions from NVIDIA, UC-Berkeley, Fermilab, USRA, NASA, University of Waterloo, and the Perimeter Institute, released a preprint position paper to ArXiv entitled How to Build a Quantum Supercomputer: Scaling from Hundreds to Millions of Qubits,{{Citation |last1=Mohseni |first1=Masoud |title=How to Build a Quantum Supercomputer: Scaling from Hundreds to Millions of Qubits |date=2025-01-31 |arxiv=2411.10406 |last2=Scherer |first2=Artur |last3=Johnson |first3=K. Grace |last4=Wertheim |first4=Oded |last5=Otten |first5=Matthew |last6=Aadit |first6=Navid Anjum |last7=Alexeev |first7=Yuri |last8=Bresniker |first8=Kirk M. |last9=Camsari |first9=Kerem Y.}} which details their approach to creating a utility-scale quantum computer.

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