Nvidia said it is building a Boston-based research center to provide cutting-edge technologies to advance quantum computing.
The Nvidia Accelerated Quantum Research Center, or NVAQC, will integrate leading quantum hardware with AI supercomputers, enabling what is known as accelerated quantum supercomputing. The NVAQC will help solve quantum computing’s most challenging problems, ranging from tackling qubit noise to the transformation of experimental quantum processors into practical devices.
Building this new center seems to be politically symbolic. The Trump administration has been hostile toward big companies building anything offshore. By creating an important new center in the U.S., Nvidia can show it’s creating American jobs in a technology field that is critical to U.S. competitiveness.
Leading quantum computing innovators, including Quantinuum, Quantum Machines and QuEra Computing, will tap into NVAQC to drive advancements through collaborations with researchers from leading universities, such as the Harvard Quantum Initiative in Science and Engineering (HQI) and the Engineering Quantum Systems (EQuS) group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
“Quantum computing will augment AI supercomputers to tackle some of the world’s most important problems, from drug discovery to materials development,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of Nvidia, in a statement. “Working with the wider quantum research community to advance CUDA-quantum hybrid computing, the Nvidia Accelerated Quantum Research Center is where breakthroughs will be made to create large-scale, useful, accelerated quantum supercomputers.”
Huang made the announcement at Nvidia GTC 2025, which runs through March 21.
Propelling quantum innovation
Through the NVAQC, commercial and academic partners will work with Nvidia to use Nvidia GB200 NVL72 rack-scale systems, or powerful hardware for quantum computing applications. This enables complex simulations of quantum systems and the deployment of the low-latency quantum hardware control algorithms essential for quantum error correction. Nvidia GB200 NVL72 systems will also accelerate the adoption of AI algorithms in quantum computing research.
To address the challenges of integrating GPU and QPU hardware, the NVAQC will employ the Nvidia CUDA-Q quantum development platform, enabling researchers to develop new hybrid quantum algorithms and applications.
The HQI — a community of researchers dedicated to advancing the science and engineering of quantum systems and their applications — will collaborate with the NVAQC to advance their research on next-generation quantum computing technologies.
“The NVAQC is a very special addition to the unique Boston area quantum ecosystem, including word-leading university groups and startup companies,” said Mikhail Lukin, professor at Harvard and a co-director of HQI, in a statement. “The accelerated quantum and classical computing technologies NVIDIA is bringing together has the potential to advance the research in areas ranging from quantum error correction to applications of quantum computing systems, accelerating quantum computing research and pulling useful quantum computing closer to reality.”
Researchers from the EQuS group, a member of the MIT Center for Quantum Engineering — which serves as a hub for research, education and engagement in support of quantum engineering — will use NVAQC to develop techniques such as quantum error correction.
“The Nvidia Accelerated Quantum Research Center will provide EQuS group researchers with unprecedented access to technologies and expertise needed to solve the challenges of useful quantum computing,” said William Oliver, professor of electrical engineering and computer science, and of physics, leader of the EQuS group, and director of the MIT Center for Quantum Engineering, in a statement. “We anticipate the future will also include other members of the Center for Quantum Engineering at MIT. Integrating the Nvidia accelerated computing platform with qubits will help tackle core challenges like quantum error correction, hybrid application development and quantum device characterization.”
The NVAQC is expected to begin operations later this year.
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