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FirstQFM reported that its Quantum Reservoir Computing (QRC) system outperformed a leading classical foundation-model baseline in financial time-series forecasting during benchmarking presented at ISC 2026.
The company’s QRC platform is built on its Quantum Foundation Models and leverages NVIDIA CUDA-Q, cuQuantum, and cuTensorNet for development and scaling.
FirstQFM said the system achieved a 56.1% series-level win rate in zero-shot forecasting evaluations and plans to offer both cloud-based and on-premises deployments.
PRESS RELEASE — FirstQFM, a pioneer in machine learning foundation models for quantum computing, announces a significant milestone in the commercial application of quantum computing today at the ISC High Performance conference. Built on NVIDIA accelerated computing, FirstQFM’s Quantum Reservoir Computing system delivered a 56.1% series-level win rate against the strongest classical foundation-model baseline in zero-shot forecasting evaluation.
