Business

Silicon Quantum Computing built a bigger, better, faster processor chip

- December 26, 2025 2 MIN READ

Sydney startup Silicon Quantum Computing (SQC), which builds its own quantum chips (QPUs) for commercial-scale quantum systems, has achieved a breakthrough in scaling processors.  The company’s manufacturing process, developed over 25 years, patterns chips with 0.13 nanometer (atom level) precision to create the most accurate semiconductor manufacturing process in the world. Details of the latest… Read more »

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PsiQuantum’s Brisbane build is already running very late

- December 9, 2025 2 MIN READ

PsiQuantum, the US startup backed by Blackbird, and the Queensland and federal governments, is already running several months behind schedule on plans to build its Brisbane facility and deliver the world’s first quantum computer. Founded in Palo Alto in 2016 by four expat Australian professors, PsiQuantum was backed by $940 million in joint funding from… Read more »

Quantum Brilliance, Andrew Horsley, Marcus Doherty, Mark Luo.
Global tech

Quantum Brilliance opens synthetic diamonds production plant in Melbourne with $31 million in Victoria and federal government support

- November 5, 2025 2 MIN READ

Government investments worth more than $31 million in Canberra quantum computing startup Quantum Brilliance have led to the world’s first commercial quantum diamond foundry opening in Melbourne today to produce computer circuits using lab-grown gems. Quantum Brilliance, founded in 2019, using research undertaken at ANU, is the world’s leading developer of miniaturised quantum computing products,… Read more »

Funding

Audit of the federal government’s $466 million PsiQuantum deal declares it ‘appropriate’

- September 24, 2025 3 MIN READ

The federal department tasked with evaluating American firm PsiQuantum’s unsolicited proposal to build a quantum computer in Australia carried out an “appropriate” process despite minor issues with record keeping and planning for market testing, an internal audit has found. PsiQuantum proposed the build in November 2022, and its ultimately successful Brisbane plan — backed by… Read more »

Business

Blackbird-backed PsiQuantum becomes a $10.5 billion gorilla after $1.5bn Series E

- September 11, 2025 3 MIN READ

PsiQuantum, the US startup with Australian cofounders, has raised a gobsmacking US$1 billion (A$1.5bn) in a round that’s more than doubled its valuation in four years to US$7bn (A$10.5bn). The California startup, founded in Palo Alto in 2015 by expat Australian professors Jeremy O’Brien, Terry Rudolph, Mark Thompson and Dr Pete Shadbolt, hopes to build… Read more »

Q-CTR founder Michael Biercuk
Business

Sydney quantum startup Q-CTRL bags $38 million US defence contract for GPS-free navigation sensors

- August 28, 2025 2 MIN READ

Quantum infrastructure software startup Q-CTRL has been awarded to contracts worth $38 million (US$24.4m) under the US Department of Defense agency DARPA’s Robust Quantum Sensors (RoQS) program. The funding is for Q-CTRL’s quantum sensing technologies in high-performance military vehicles, in a collaboration with Lockheed Martin. Engaging Q-CTRL’s solution comes as GPS becomes increasingly vulnerable to… Read more »

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Sydney startups Diraq and Emergence Quantum collaborate on key quantum computing breakthrough

- June 26, 2025 2 MIN READ

Two Sydney quantum startups have combined forces to developed technology that effectively reduces the size of the circuits required to run a silicon-based quantum computer. Diraq and Emergence Quantum published details in Nature today. Quantum bits (or ‘qubits’) must be held at cryogenic temperatures, near absolute zero (–273.15 °C), to preserve their information. But they… Read more »

AI/Machine Learning

Data centre giant NextDC is building a $2b billion digital tech campus in Melbourne

- June 12, 2025 2 MIN READ

ASX-listed data centre business NextDC (ASX:NXT) will build a $2 billion tech hub in Port Melbourne as part of the Victorian government’s Fishermans Bend Innovation Precinct. Named M4, it will be purpose-built for sovereign AI, high performance computing (HPC), advanced manufacturing and deep tech, with three core components: an AI factory to support NVIDIA’s Blackwell and… Read more »

Quantum Computing

Australian researchers have simulated real molecules using quantum computing

- May 30, 2025 3 MIN READ

When a molecule absorbs light, it undergoes a whirlwind of quantum-mechanical transformations. Electrons jump between energy levels, atoms vibrate, and chemical bonds shift — all within millionths of a billionth of a second. These processes underpin everything from photosynthesis in plants and DNA damage from sunlight, to the operation of solar cells and light-powered cancer… Read more »

Q-CTR founder Michael Biercuk
Events

Q-CTRL is offering free online quantum computing masterclasses

- May 27, 2025 2 MIN READ

Sydney quantum software scaleup Q-CTRL has launched a series of free education and workplace development webinars to inspire future quantum leaders, Q-CTRL has leveraged the interactive learning modules by Black Opal to help to meet the growing demand for quantum-savvy employees. Sydney University quantum physicist Prof Michael J. Biercuk launched Q-CTRL in late 2017, pioneering… Read more »

Funding

University of Sydney quantum sensing spinout lands $750,000 pre-Seed

- March 27, 2025 2 MIN READ

A diamond-on-silicon quantum sensing startup cofounded by two University of Sydney professors has raised $750,000 in pre-Seed funding. The raise for DeteQt was backed by deep tech CSIRO-backed Main Sequence Ventures and US deep tech investor ATP Fund. DeteQt was founded by Adjunct Professor Jim Rabeau and Professor Omid Kavehei from the University of Sydney Nano… Read more »

Funding

PsiQuantum is on the hunt for another $1.2 billion in funding

- March 26, 2025 2 MIN READ

PsiQuantum, the US quantum computing startup backed by $940 million in Australian and Queensland government funding, is reportedly looking to raise at least US$750 million (A$1.19 billion). Reuters reports that the raise is underway at a US$6 billion (A$9.5bn) pre-money valuation, according to sources, with US investor BlackRock leading the fundraising effort The California startup founded… Read more »

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