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Rigetti to Lead £3.5 Million Innovate UK’s Quantum Missions Pilot Competition to Advance Quantum Error Correction
National, Quantum Computing Business, Ukquantum
Matt Swayne April 22, 2025
Rigetti UK has been selected to lead a £3.5 million Innovate UK’s Quantum Missions project to advance quantum error correction (QEC) on its superconducting quantum computer at the NQCC.
The project includes upgrading Rigetti’s UK-based system to a 36-qubit QPU and integrating Riverlane’s QEC stack to enable real-time error correction and improved system performance.
Rigetti also received funding for two additional collaborations focused on scalable QEC and open-architecture testbeds, reinforcing its leadership in the UK quantum ecosystem.
PRESS RELEASE — Rigetti UK Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Rigetti Computing, Inc. (Nasdaq: RGTI) (“Rigetti” or the “Company”), a pioneer in full-stack quantum-classical computing, today announced that it has been selected as one of the winners of Innovate UK’s Quantum Missions pilot competition to benchmark and enhance quantum error correction (QEC) capabilities on superconducting quantum computers. Rigetti will lead a £3.5 million consortium alongside Riverlane and the NQCC Superconducting Circuits Team to leverage Rigetti’s superconducting quantum computer hosted at the NQCC to conduct ambitious QEC tests that advance state-of-the-art metrics and demonstrate real-time QEC capabilities — a requirement for universal, fault-tolerant quantum computing.
Fault-tolerant quantum computing has the potential to usher in a new era of computational power to solve real-world problems. Achieving fault tolerance requires QEC to be effectively integrated with quantum computing technology, and with that comes addressing critical challenges. These include processing bottlenecks in classical control systems and their integration with quantum error decoding technology, as well as the high error rates of current quantum computers. The project aims to make measurable advancements towards overcoming these challenges by developing key capabilities required for executing a large number of quantum operations on Rigetti’s UK-based quantum computer.
As part of the project, Rigetti will upgrade its existing NQCC quantum computer. The upgrades will include:
Deploying a larger 36-qubit quantum processing unit (QPU), updating from the current 24-qubit QPU
Integrating Rigetti’s latest generation control system, enabling improved qubit control and a fully programmable, low-latency interface with Riverlane’s Quantum Error Correction (QEC) Stack
Riverlane will lead the QEC experiments, identifying key improvements to enhance system performance and meet crucial QEC metrics. The NQCC Superconducting Circuits Team will support the system upgrade and provide quality assurance for the QEC experiments.
“Our NQCC testbed continues to serve as a critical resource for advancing our technology capabilities. We believe that we have a tremendous advantage on our path to fault-tolerant quantum computing with Riverlane’s QEC expertise and our modular, open architecture that lends itself to flexible and innovative solutions to scale our technology,” says Dr. Subodh Kulkarni, Rigetti CEO. “Moreover, we benefit from the strong advantages of superconducting qubits, which we believe are the winning qubit modality given their fast gate speeds and clear path to scaling.”
“Developing high-performance quantum error correction is critical to achieving fault-tolerant quantum computing, and this project provides an ideal environment to advance those capabilities,” said Steve Brierley, Riverlane CEO & Founder. “By integrating our QEC stack with Rigetti’s upgraded superconducting quantum computer, we aim to achieve measurable improvements in key performance metrics, including throughput, latency, and decoding accuracy, which are essential for real-time error correction. We look forward to making significant progress through this collaboration.”
The Quantum Missions pilot competition was established to accelerate quantum computing and quantum networking projects by increasing their capabilities and removing technological barriers to their commercialization and adoption. Rigetti was also awarded two additional Quantum Missions pilot competition projects:
Collaboration with SEEQC to integrate its digital chip-based technology with Rigetti’s 9-qubit Novera™ QPU hosted at the NQCC with the goal of identifying and understanding the key system components needed for scalable QEC. The project partners also include Cambridge Consultants, Oxford Instruments Nanotechnology Tools, NQCC, and University of Edinburgh.
Collaboration with TreQ, Qruise, Q-CTRL, and Oxford Ionics to create an open-architecture quantum computing testbed. The project will offer eight unique configurations by combining two quantum processors, two control systems, and two quantum software stacks. The project will also deliver an open specification for quantum workflows, creating a common interface between quantum software and hardware.
These projects build on Rigetti’s leadership in the UK’s quantum computing ecosystem, including launching the first fully operational quantum computer at the NQCC and leading a three-year £10 million consortium to deploy one of the first UK-based quantum computers hosted at Oxford Instruments’ Tubney Woods facility.
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Matt Swayne
https://thequantuminsider.com/2025/04/22/rigetti-to-lead-3-5-million-innovate-uks-quantum-missions-pilot-competition-to-advance-quantum-error-correction/?_bhlid=8e4e33791ad88fb0ddae430eafd9685c4e63692d
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Invest-in-America
3 months ago
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bwrbad
3 months ago
Overall, genetic therapies need at least another 15 to 20 years to become semi-main stream and CRISPR-Cas9 another 10-15 years for fixing errors
Quantum computing to be in everyday high profile application level alone need more than gene therapy becoming main stream years, and businesswise profitability as early as 2060. so for current generation toys best bet are cpu gpu mpu xpu, AI, robot, personalized nuclear power generator. RGTIs of course will go back to $1 unless they say they are opening research facility in Saturn or the dark side of moon. what Elon think and say about this.
I-Glow
3 months ago
RGTI is on the Nasdaq Capital Market - the lowest tier where you can find Mullen Automotive.
Major players like Google, IBM, and Microsoft have invested billions over decades in research and Development.
Demis Hassabis, the CEO of Google DeepMind, announced the $100 billion budget at a TED conference in Vancouver in April 2024.
Of that approximately $10 Billion is spent on Quantum Computing.
In the Last 10-Q the company stated - "With the goal of unlocking this opportunity, we have developed the world’s first multi-chip quantum processor for scalable quantum computing systems. We believe that this patented and patent pending, modular chip architecture is the building block for new generations of quantum processors that we expect to achieve a clear advantage over classical computers."
I read the patents and they don't seem to have any commercial value - also 95-97% of ALL patents fail to be licensed or commercialized.
Google's Willow is already outclassing Supercomputers -"As of November 2024, El Capitan at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is the world's fastest supercomputer.
Speed: El Capitan has a peak performance of 2.79 exaFLOPs, which is 2.79 quintillion calculations per second.
Google's quantum computer chip, Willow, is extremely fast, performing calculations in minutes that would take today's fastest supercomputers billions of years.
RGTI needs Billions in Capital to compete in the Quantum Computing sector.
There are far too many hurdles to overcome for startups to compete.
With 1,978 Quantum Computing related patents published between 2002 and 2022, International Business Machines Corp holds the most number of Quantum Computing patents in the global Technology, Media and Telecom sector.
The second largest number of Quantum Computing related patents were published by Alphabet Inc with 944 patents, of which 95.6% was contributed by its subsidiary Google LLC.
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aBeezlee
3 months ago
It's not that I believe, it's simply what happened. Quan is a threat to these companies, since they haven't made much progress yet. I hold multiple players (LAES, DWAVE, QeM, etc). Quantum is a big part of my port along with space stocks. It's true the tech is young, but buying AFTER they mature would be insane.
This is like buying Amazon at dollars before they blew up. I'm not going to wait till 2040 to start investing in this tech. That's why I do it now.