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Quantum Computing company
Atom Computing Inc. is a quantum computing company headquartered in Berkeley, California with a commercial operations facility in Boulder, Colorado. The company develops quantum computers based on neutral atom technology.
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Diraq is a quantum computing company developing quantum computers based on silicon spin qubits. The company was founded in 2022 as a spin-out from Australian university UNSW Sydney and is led by physicist and engineer Andrew Dzurak. In November 2025, Diraq was selected by DARPA to advance to Stage B of the Quantum Benchmarking Initiative (QBI), a program evaluating whether quantum computing approaches can achieve utility-scale operation by 2033.
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Technology research and development agency of the U.S. Department of Defense
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is a research and development agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of emerging technologies for use by the military. Originally known as the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), the agency was created on February 7, 1958, by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in response to the Soviets' launch of Sputnik 1 in 1957.
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The U.S. government's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, is awarding up to $300 million each to four companies to help them get their quantum computing hardware ready for independent testing. These four companies—IBM, IonQ, Diraq, and Atom Computing—have officially entered "Stage C" of DARPA’s…