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PostScriptum launches Qutwo AI system for Quantum Computing

PostScriptum, a deep-tech investment and development group, launched Qutwo, a pioneering artificial intelligence platform to advance quantum computing's commercial feasibility, in a major technology industry move. Qutwo OS is a key interface for enterprise clients navigating the “hybrid-quantum era”.

Emergence of Qutwo OS

Qutwo has been developed quietly in recent months, bringing together “proven infrastructure and leading talent” according to PostScriptum's Peter Sarlin. The platform is both a software solution and a concerted effort to bridge the integration gap organizations have when running current AI workloads on hardware between conventional and quantum systems.

Qutwo OS offers simultaneous classical and quantum corporate applications by combining powerful AI with quantum computing operations. This multidisciplinary strategy gives organizations who need the intersection of these two areas a strategic advantage.

The Quantum and AI “Dream Team”

High-level personnel are key to the launch. PostScriptum employs around 30 quantum and AI experts. Many famous sources advise this multidisciplinary group:

Former IQM Quantum Computers and Silo AI experts, Europe's largest private AI labs, and superconducting quantum hardware leaders.

Academic Excellence: Berkeley, UCL, and Aalto researchers.

Leadership includes Peter Sarlin, who calls intersectional expertise a “strategic competitive edge that must be built today”. Andrew Knight has also praised team members like Adrian, demonstrating his trust in the team's ability to handle the technological convergence of Hilbert spaces and algorithmic advancement.

Integration Gap Solution

Qutwo aims to provide quantum-ready algorithms. These AI models are optimized for quantum speedups when hardware improves. Qutwo addresses the fact that current hardware is often neither quantum nor classical:

Hybrid Infrastructure: Tools for QPU-GPU data and workflow preparation. After focusing on “quantum readiness,” pipelines can be developed and tested without fault-tolerant quantum technology. See What Is the Vertically Integrated Projects VIP Program?

Industry Impact of Enterprise Adoption

Qutwo OS has attracted enterprise clients in key sectors despite its new launch. This platform helps early adopters address complex, real-world quantum computing problems. Notable industries using the technology are:

Finance: Intractable optimization and risk-assessment challenges.

E-commerce logistics: streamlining supply chains and flow.

Energy and Pharma: Establishing quantum-classical material science and drug discovery pipelines.

The Strategic Position of Europe

In Finland's competitive quantum landscape, Qutwo's launch is notable. Juha Vartiainen finds the initiative exciting since it may grow quickly. It also shows a European edge in quantum and AI integration. By creating this “hybrid-quantum era,” PostScriptum intends to boost Europe's technical standing.

Broader Quantum Landscape

The arrival of Qutwo coincides with a quantum sector boom. In the same week, Positron AI announced a $230 million fundraising round and a draft White House order to activate agencies for quantum technologies. While robotics and artificial intelligence improve, quantum computing exists in a “special space” a Hilbert space that needs platforms like Qutwo to fully achieve its promise for addressing insoluble problems, according to the field's "Official Quantum Dog."

With PostScriptum, theoretical quantum research is giving way to enterprise-focused quantum deployment driven by AI. Qutwo OS provides the “intelligent interface” needed to turn quantum potential into profit as firms manage this change.

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Claudia Nemat Appointed Chairwoman Of IQM Quantum Council

The world's leading superconducting quantum computer maker, IQM Quantum Computers, made a significant hire to boost Europe's quantum technology industry. New IQM Quantum Council head Claudia Nemat was a Deutsche Telekom AG Board of Management for Technology and Innovation member.

This significant decision takes effect November 1, 2025. Physicist and technology pioneer Claudia Nemat will replace Dr. Axel Thierauf. She has over 20 years of administrative and technological experience. One of Europe's most experienced business strategists leads the advisory council of a corporation crucial to Europe's quantum technical sovereignty.

Dual Mandate for Global Ecosystem Growth

According to IQM, Dr. c, the former president of VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, has joined the council. The strategic advisory board includes business, academic, and public governance veterans. Its goal is to build IQM as a quantum computing pioneer by supporting a secure, imaginative, and sustainable quantum future for everyone.

IQM Quantum Computers co-founder and CEO Dr. Jan Goetz stressed the strategic depth and urgency of these additions. Dr. Goetz said Nemat's hiring shows IQM's commitment to building and disseminating a quantum ecosystem worldwide. He said Claudia Nemat and Dr. Vasara's “extensive experience and deep knowledge in technology and innovation” will help IQM achieve fault-tolerant quantum computing and strengthen the ecosystem. To fully realise quantum technology's revolutionary promise, fault-tolerant quantum computing is needed next.

Claudia Nemat—Policy and Industrial Scale Profile Working through technical changes has shaped Claudia Nemat's career. She led Deutsche Telekom's large-scale technology architecture and innovation pipeline for ten years after 17 years at McKinsey & Company. She was named Partner in 2000 and Senior Partner in 2006 at McKinsey, where she advised global giants on digital strategy, organisational transformation, and operational excellence. Her expertise in strategic consulting and industrial technology program implementation enhances her advisory position at IQM.

Nemat is a leading corporate leader and an expert on digital transformation and artificial intelligence, emphasising human-centered technology. In North America, South America, and Europe, she has led boards and organisations. She seems passionate about academia, global policy, and technology.

She is a member of the German Council on Foreign Relations, Cologne University Council, and ABB Board of Directors. Lanxess Supervisory Board and Airbus Board of Directors have employed her. In 2021, she became Heinrich Hertz Visiting Professor at KIT.

Enhancing the Quantum Council's Mission

Established over five years ago, the IQM Quantum Council is a crucial strategic arm for quantum computing development. Public, academic, and private sector interaction is encouraged.

Under Nemat's leadership, the council is expected to increase its efforts in many crucial areas for quantum industry growth:

The council will encourage cooperation to increase quantum computing's commercial applications and IQM's full-stack solutions.

Standards and best practices: Predicting the societal and industrial transformations that quantum advantage would unavoidably bring, industry standards and best practices for ethical and responsible quantum technology development are a focus.

Policy and Advocacy: The advisory group will argue for quantum adoption at the highest levels of European governance to obtain public financing and legislation for the growing ecosystem.

Workforce Development: Leading vital workforce development programs including reskilling, industrial training, and education will help society close the quantum skills gap and create jobs in quantum hardware and software.

Claudia Nemat praised the field's growth and expressed excitement for the upcoming challenge. She stated, “I am thrilled to be a part of the quantum journey and am thrilled about the council's achievements and quantum advancements.” Due to our shared excitement and dedication, we will keep incorporating stakeholders and ensuring quantum benefits society. The council's goals and objectives reflect IQM's maturity.

At IQM's Front

IQM Quantum Computers is Europe's technology guard against China and the US. Superconducting quantum computers are the company's speciality. It offers on-premises full-stack quantum computers and a cloud platform. IQM serves leading HPC facilities, research labs, academic institutions, and huge enterprises who need full access to its cutting-edge hardware and software.

With over 300 employees across Germany, France, Japan, Poland, Italy, Spain, Singapore, South Korea, and the US, IQM Quantum Council has a clear international expansion strategy.

IQM's quantum hardware competence and Nemat's experience managing huge technological infrastructure at Deutsche Telekom are expected to drive the company's growth. She will assist IQM on strategic alliances and industrial scale for fault-tolerant quantum computing using her operational knowledge.

By appointing Nemat to lead its strategic advisory body, IQM is sending a strong message to European policymakers and the global technology industry: the European quantum ecosystem is ready for industrial-grade leadership and international competition. The IQM Quantum Council is committed to making quantum computing a successful, internationally competitive, and commercially viable enterprise.

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Noise Model Verified On IQM’s Superconducting Quantum Chip

Noise Model Recent Research Highlights A Key Testbed for Quantum Computing Accuracy: the IQM 20-Qubit Chip

The fast emerging science of quantum computing has advanced by using IQM Quantum Computers' 20-qubit superconducting device to evaluate a new and extremely precise noise model. This study by IQM Quantum Computers, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, and science + computing AG / Eviden's T. Piskor, M. Schöndorf, and M. Bauer greatly improves noise-related problems in the noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) era.

The new model, which has been rigorously benchmarked on the IQM device, promises to improve quantum processing and algorithm optimisation by authentically representing quantum hardware's complex behaviour.

Need for Noise Modelling in NISQ Era Quantum computing offers great potential for tackling problems that classical machines cannot, from optimisation to quantum simulation. However, all modern quantum computers are NISQ devices, which limits the number of error-prone operations before hardware noise degrades quantum characteristics. Understanding, reducing, and suppressing noise is crucial for quantum computer development. For identifying noise origins and assessing if a quantum algorithm works on a given hardware, detailed noise models that accurately reflect quantum devices are needed. IQMs 20-Qubit Chip: Verification Basis This unique noise model was verified on the IQM 20-qubit superconducting device. This gadget relies on square grid superconducting Transmon qubits. Its architecture relies on tunable couplers between each qubit to implement the chip's native entangling gate and reduce crosstalk. For single-qubit operations, the chip uses the PRX gate to rotate the Bloch sphere freely around the X-Y plane. PRX and CZ gates form a comprehensive gate set for IQM quantum computing hardware.

With this 20-qubit device, IQM has set high performance expectations for superconducting qubits, which must be understood. Tunable couplers have been shown to have fidelity above 99.8% at extended distances. Careful Noise Analysis Noise affects the IQM 20-qubit chip, like other quantum computing devices. This work meticulously determined the chip's noise parameters using coherence time measurements and randomised benchmarking sessions. Every qubit or qubit pair is measured for three critical criteria to ensure precision: Single-qubit gate timing and fidelity. At 20 ns, single-qubit gate integrity averaged 99.85%. Two-qubit gate timing and fidelity. Average two-qubit gate fidelity was 98.59% at 40 ns. Relaxation time describes qubit-environment energy transfer. 41.8 µs was the average time. Depolarisation time, which erases qubit phase information. The average time was 3.2 µs. Measurement error probability in states 0 and 1. At states 0 and 1, measurement error probabilities averaged 2.66% and 5.09%. These measurements fed the new noise model to build a “digital twin” of the IQM 20-qubit processor.

Benchmarking and Best Predictions More accurate predictions and benchmarking The model was validated on the IQM 20-qubit chip using a variety of benchmark circuits (structured and random) and sizes (2–7 qubits with depths 5–87). These included Quantum Approximate Optimisation Algorithm (QAOA), Random Unitary (RU), and Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) circuits. Every circuit was carefully built to match the target hardware's native gate set and architecture, often requiring gate translation and SWAP insertion using Eviden's Qaptiva framework's Nnizer plugin.

For quantitative comparison, the Hellinger distance was used, which is ideal for comparing probability distributions from noisy quantum states since it accounts for events with noiseless zero-probability contributions. The benchmarking results demonstrated that the new noise model simulations and IQM chip experimental data agreed well. Hellinger distances were always below 0.1 for smaller circuits like GHZ-2 to GHZ-5, ensuring practically perfect agreement. Even for larger circuits like GHZ-6, GHZ-7, RU, and QAOA, the model accurately simulated hardware behaviour. Even at deeper depths, Hellinger distances for RU and QAOA circuits were below 0.1. The model accurately simulated the hardware outputs for QAOA circuits, which were practically random sampling due to their depth, to evaluate the results of very large and noisy circuits. Comparing the new method to other noise models, such as the unified noise model (UNM) and the Qiskit composite model (QiskitCM), which were previously studied on IBM Q Melbourne, showed its increased performance. The new model reduced Hellinger distances by over 50% for larger quantum walk circuits (QW-4, QW-5, and QW-6) tested on IBM Q Melbourne compared to competing models. The researchers attribute this large boost to their enhanced idle qubit noise modelling.

Future of Quantum Computing Potential for Quantum Computing The validation of this precise and adaptable noise model on the IQM 20-qubit chip is a major quantum computing development. By providing a more accurate representation of quantum hardware behaviour, it helps researchers evaluate and optimise quantum algorithms before implementing them on expensive and resource-constrained real quantum hardware. It also supports critical applications like error mitigation. The model agrees well, although the researchers notice slight deviations, likely due by more complex noise sources including coherence problems, leakage, and crosstalk that have not yet been completely represented. These advanced error channels will be used in future research to improve the model. The model should also be tested on neutral atom and trapped-ion quantum computer systems. This study is critical to understanding hardware limits and optimising algorithms for important and reliable outcomes in the noisy quantum age. The IQM 20-qubit chip's detailed characterisation and benchmarking help.