Who’s Playing, Who’s Ahead, and What It Means
Insider Brief
Since mid-2025, the US, UK, Japan, and Canada have moved quantum computing from research funding into binding policy — including roughly $2 billion in US CHIPS Act financing, a further £2 billion added to the UK’s National Quantum Strategy, Japan’s ¥1.05 trillion “first year of quantum industrialization,” and Canada’s $900+ million Defence Industrial Strategy commitment.
Smaller “middle power” nations — Singapore, the Netherlands, Australia, and Israel — are making narrower, targeted quantum bets, from Singapore hosting Quantinuum’s Helios processor to Israel’s new Project Nexus tender for a sovereign quantum computing platform.
Naftali Bennett, former Israeli Prime Minister and Quantum Source board member, frames quantum computing as a matter of national sovereignty, warning that “Q-day” would render current encryption methods obsolete and urging governments to pursue aggressive migration strategies and alliance-based development models.
