- Nvidia hosted its first quantum computing day at GTC 2025.
- At the event, major players in the quantum space made big announcements about recent developments.
- The event came months after Jensen Huang said it would be decades before quantum computing will be useful.
Nvidia hosted its first-ever quantum computing day on Thursday at GTC 2025, expanding the tech conference’s focus beyond accelerated computing and artificial intelligence and honing in on a burgeoning technology that researchers agree could usher in new innovations in materials science, medicine, and beyond.
The inaugural Quantum Day brought with it a series of announcements from quantum computing companies, including D-Wave, Infleqtion, SEEQC, and more. Here are some of the biggest announcements and what they mean for the industry.
Nvidia announces plans to build a quantum research lab in Boston
During the roundtable discussion, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced his company’s plan to build a quantum research lab in Boston.
“It will likely be the most advanced accelerated hybrid quantum computing research lab world,” Huang said. “And it’s going to be located in Boston so that we can partner with Harvard and MIT.”
Huang was careful to note that the announcement was planned ahead of his January comments, in which he suggested we’re 20 years from quantum computing being “very useful,” which sent quantum stocks tumbling earlier this year.
Quantum blockchain architecture from D-Wave
Palo Alto-based D-Wave announced the publication of its latest paper, which introduced a new quantum blockchain architecture. The paper outlines how the company built and tested a “proof of quantum” algorithm that uses quantum computation to generate and validate blockchain hashes.
Researchers in the field agree quantum computing could end encryption as we know it, resulting in massive security risks for any private data stored on the internet. D-Wave’s research, the company says, could help power the next generation of blockchain for cryptocurrencies, supply chain management, healthcare, identity verification, and decentralized finance.
“We’ve performed connotations that your GPUs can’t perform, and now we’re able to build a blockchain that’s more energy efficient than what’s running on GPUs,” Alan Baratz, CEO of D-Wave, told Business Insider.
Contextual Machine Learning from Infleqtion and Nvidia
Infleqtion, a quantum information technology company, unveiled its new machine learning approach, called Contextual Machine Learning, during Quantum Day. The CML approach was developed in partnership with Nvidia.
The CML approach leverages quantum computing to enhance artificial intelligence. It allows machine learning models to process more information over longer time periods and from multiple sources simultaneously, enhancing AI’s ability to recognize patterns in sensor data, predict trends, and make real-time decisions with greater accuracy.
Classical-Quantum interface from SEEQC and Nvidia
The quantum hardware manufacturer SEEQC, in partnership with Nvidia, announced the world’s first fully digital quantum-classical interface demo — a milestone toward delivering the first chip-to-chip interface that will connect quantum processors with classical GPUs.
“What we’ve done is we’ve taken the core functionality of a quantum computer, put it on a chip, and then made that chip operate at the same temperature of qubits so that we can actually put them together and create the connectivity that way,” SEEQC CEO John Levy told Business Insider.
The prototype chip relies on the strengths of classical computing to handle error correction in real time while leveraging the strengths of quantum computing to process more data more quickly than classical computers alone can.
“The key insight is that we’re doing it in a very power-efficient way because if you use regular chips, the heat of those chips would destabilize the cubits, so they wouldn’t work,” Levy said. “Our chips are operating at nine orders of magnitude lower power, so that’s a billion times lower power than conventional chips.”
What it means for the industry
In addition to major recent announcements involving quantum computing research from Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, and Google, the news out of GTC highlights just how rapidly the industry is gaining momentum.
Where quantum computing has for years been considered a theoretical field with little use beyond research, the evolving industry has now expanded beyond proving its academic potential to showcase its commercial uses.
Oskar Painter, the director of quantum hardware at AWS, previously told Business Insider: “We really are at a very exciting time in quantum computing, and you’re hearing a lot about it because this is a real tipping point.”
