At the VivaTech 2026 conference, France’s national high-performance computing agency, GENCI (Grand Équipement National de Calcul Intensif), and French hardware developer Alice & Bob signed a historic public procurement contract for the acquisition of an 18-cat-qubit quantum computer. Funded entirely by the HQI (France Hybrid HPC Quantum Initiative) under the comprehensive France 2030 investment plan, the transaction marks the world’s first formal state acquisition of a quantum system utilizing error-biased cat-qubit technology. The machine will serve as a foundational sovereign infrastructure asset to insulate European strategic autonomy and elevate regional deep-tech scientific competitiveness. Supercomputing Co-Location and Hybrid Topology Integration The 18-cat-qubit [...]

AIX Global Innovations has published a 100-page technical report on Zenodo documenting the execution of an end-to-end fault-tolerant quantum computing (FTQC) software stack on…

France Acquires from Alice & Bob a First Quantum Computer Based on Cat-Qubit Technology Under the HQI Programme

At the France Quantum 2026 summit, European cloud provider OVHcloud announced a dual-pronged expansion of its advanced research and Quantum-as-a-Service (QaaS) platform. Under a…

At the VivaTech 2026 conference, France’s national high-performance computing agency, GENCI (Grand Équipement National de Calcul Intensif), and French hardware developer Alice &…