SAN FRANCISCO— September 14, 2026 — BlueQubit announced the open call for its Quantum Flywheel grant program, a $150,000 initiative created with support from IBM,Amazon Web Services (AWS), and NVIDIA accelerated computing. The three-monthprogram provides research teams with cloud compute credits for QPU, CPU, andGPU resources, along with access to frontier AI models and BlueQubit’squantum-native development environment.
While frontier AItools now allow scientists to draft complete experimental pipelines in hours,access to expensive hardware remains a bottleneck to testing and validatingthese hypotheses. Quantum Flywheel removes this barrier, enabling acceleratedquantum computing research aimed at producing publishable preprints,open-source repositories, and reproducible benchmark data.
The programinvites proposals designed to address fundamental scientific challenges acrossthree areas. Teams will develop and test novel quantum algorithms on IBMquantum computers, targeting quantum advantage in simulation, optimization, andother areas where classical methods cannot easily compete. Researchers willalso conduct adversarial classical simulation, using tensor networks,Pauli-path methods, and other classical heuristics to stress-test publishedquantum advantage claims. Additionally, proposals will explore using frontierAI agents to discover, decode, and evaluate novel quantum error-correctioncodes aimed at mitigating hardware noise.
Selected teamswill receive direct access to high-performance classical supercomputing,including NVIDIA GPU instances on AWS and large core CPU machines viaBlueQubit's simulation platform. This platform ensures end-to-end support fromcode generation to QPU execution on IBM quantum computers. By pairing AI-drivenquantum circuit design with real hardware access, researchers can advancefundamental quantum information science and establish open, reproduciblebenchmarks for the global scientific community.
“AI hasdemonstrated tremendous success in accelerating research, from machine learningitself to drug discovery,” said Hrant Gharibyan, CEO and Co-founder ofBlueQubit. “The time has come to bring the best AI tools to quantum computing.We are particularly excited about two areas where AI can have an outsizedimpact: discovering novel quantum algorithms alongside classical heuristicmethods to rigorously test for quantum advantage and advancing error correctionto pave the way toward fault-tolerant quantum computing.”
The open call forproposals is open for a five-week submission window. Selected researchers willreceive three months of continuous hardware and compute access. To learn moreor submit a proposal, visit https://www.bluequbit.io/quantum-flywheel.
AboutBlueQubit
Based in SanFrancisco, BlueQubit builds quantum-native development environments andsoftware platforms designed to accelerate quantum algorithm discovery,simulation, and hardware execution for researchers worldwide.
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