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Alice & Bob

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Paris cat-qubit pioneer; bit-flip-protected qubits to cut error-correction overhead.

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Founded
2020
Headquarters
Paris, France
Funding raised
$250M

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First state acquisition of a cat-qubit quantum computer

2026-06
Alice & Bob / GENCI (France)

France's HPC agency GENCI signed a public procurement (at VivaTech 2026) for an 18-cat-qubit Alice & Bob system — the world's first formal state acquisition of error-biased cat-qubit hardware, funded via France 2030's HQI (Hybrid HPC-Quantum) initiative. It will be installed at the CEA's TGCC center (Bruyères-le-Châtel) and hybridized with the Joliot-Curie supercomputer, accessible to researchers in 2027 — billed as the first early fault-tolerant QC (eFTQC) permanently sited in a European supercomputing center.

Press release · 2026-06

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