With the industry’s most advanced quantum systems and proven scalability, Quantinuum is on track to deliver industrial-scale quantum computing by the early 2030s.
BROOMFIELD, Colo., November 7, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Quantinuum, the global leader in quantum computing, has been selected by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) as a contractor to advance to Stage B of DARPA’s Quantum Benchmarking Initiative (QBI).
DARPA is using QBI to assess the technical probability that an industrial-scale quantum computer will be available no later than 2033. A multi-stage program, Stage B follows a six-month Stage A effort during which Quantinuum developed and delivered a detailed design for an industrial-scale system called “Lumos.”
Last year, Quantinuum published its public roadmap through the end of the decade with Apollo, a universal and fully fault-tolerant quantum computer, scheduled for launch in 2029. Lumos is a new addition to the roadmap as Quantinuum outlines plans to develop increasingly larger systems in the 2030s.
“This selection recognizes the strength and maturity of our roadmap and the work already accomplished by our teams,” said Dr. Rajeeb Hazra, President and CEO of Quantinuum. “Lumos extends our roadmap into the next decade and gives DARPA a concrete, risk-free path to achieving industrial-scale quantum computing by 2033. We look forward to partnering with DARPA and our ecosystem partners to advance this important national goal.”
Stage B will be a one-year performance-based evaluation by the DARPA Test and Evaluation team during which Quantinuum will develop a detailed R&D roadmap for Lumos to validate technical assumptions, verification methods, and scaling plans to achieve the 2033 target.
Yesterday, Quantinuum deployed its latest generation system, “Helios”, in accordance with the schedule planned by its roadmap. With the highest fidelity physical qubits and logical qubits of any commercial system, and a next-generation software stack featuring a modern, high-level programming language, Helios is designed to accelerate the adoption of quantum computing. The system has already been used to simulate high-temperature superconductivity and magnetism at unprecedented scales – two applications relevant to critical industrial utility.
About Quantinum
Quantinuum is the world leader in quantum computing. The company’s quantum systems deliver the highest performance among all industry benchmarks. Quantinuum’s more than 630 employees, including more than 370 scientists and engineers, across the United States, United Kingdom, Germany and Japan, are driving the quantum computing revolution.
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