Working closely with partners in industry and
academia, the Phase II Award will develop open-source tools to
estimate the resources required for high-value industrial
applications of quantum computing.
Zapata Computing, Inc. (“Zapata AI” or the “Company”), the
Industrial Generative AI software company developing solutions and
applications to solve enterprises’ hardest problems, today
announced that the company, along with several academic and
technology partners, has been selected as an awardee for the second
phase of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Quantum Benchmarking program. Zapata AI is a participant in both
Technical Area 1 and Technical Area 2 of the program. The
multi-year, multi-million-dollar award will help the quantum
computing community identify the resources required to deliver
quantum applications with high utility for industrial problems.
The Phase II award builds on the Phase I award granted to the
same group of collaborators in 2022. Where the Phase I award was
focused on building BenchQ — an open-source tool for benchmarking
quantum computing applications — and demonstrating its value for
resource estimation, the Phase II award will focus on improving the
tool to increase community adoption. This includes building and
maintaining BenchQ software integrations and broadening the
applicability to additional use cases. The work will identify
high-value applications, quantify their utility, and estimate the
resources required to unlock that utility across multiple quantum
hardware modalities.
Zapata AI’s partners on this initiative include the most highly
regarded and visionary experts in the field of quantum computing.
The collaboration includes teams from:
- Aalto University (Finland)
- IonQ
- University of Technology Sydney (Australia)
- University of Texas at Dallas
- The effort kicked off earlier this month.
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“This Phase II award is an important step forward from our work
on Phase I that will move the industry closer to delivering
practical applications of quantum computing for industrial-scale
problems,” said Alexandru Paler, Assistant Professor of Computer
Science at Aalto University. “We’re excited to continue our
collaboration and share the tools we’ve developed with the broader
quantum computing community.”
"We are proud to be able to continue contributing IonQ's
cutting-edge quantum computing architecture and valuable commercial
expertise to this important work,” said Jungsang Kim, Chief
Technology Officer at IonQ. “This latest DARPA award will help us
to better quantify the impact of our quantum hardware across
industries and business practices, and assess and improve the
timeline to practical commercial advantage.” In addition to the
efforts with DARPA, Zapata AI and IonQ also recently announced a
new strategic alliance to benchmark Industrial Generative AI
techniques on quantum hardware.
“The benchmarking tools we’re developing will shine
unprecedented light on the utility of quantum computers and the
path to realizing that utility,” said Simon Devitt, Faculty, Center
for Quantum Software and Information at University of Technology
Sydney. “With this new DARPA award, we aim to give the community a
newfound clarity in where we are and where we are going.”
“There has never been a more exciting time to be involved in the
quantum computing community” said Joseph S. Friedman, Associate
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University
of Texas at Dallas. “These tools developed under the DARPA program
will unlock new breakthroughs that bring us closer to a future
where quantum computers can unlock real value for applications
across industries. We are proud to be a part of the team delivering
these valuable tools to the community.”
“We are immensely proud to be able to continue our collaboration
with the U.S. government and our partners on the DARPA quantum
benchmarking project.” said Christopher Savoie, CEO of Zapata AI.
“Quantum computing has always been a part of our DNA, and it’s
through quantum research like this that we’ve been able to unlock
advantages for generative AI that we can deliver for customers
today. We expect our collaboration with DARPA and our research
partners will continue to unlock breakthroughs that we can
eventually commercialize to help enterprise customers solve their
hardest problems.”
BenchQ is now available as an open-source tool and can be
accessed here.
About Zapata AI
Zapata AI is the Industrial Generative AI company,
revolutionizing how enterprises solve their hardest problems with
its powerful suite of Generative AI software. By combining
numerical and text-based solutions, Zapata AI empowers enterprises
to leverage large language models and numerical generative models
better, faster, and more efficiently—delivering solutions to drive
growth, savings and unprecedented insight. With proprietary science
and engineering techniques and the Orquestra® platform, Zapata AI
is accelerating Generative AI’s impact in Industry. The Company was
founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. To
learn more, visit: https://www.zapata.ai. On September 6, 2023,
Zapata AI entered into a definitive business combination agreement
with Andretti Acquisition Corp. (NYSE: WNNR), the consummation of
which, subject to customary closing conditions, will result in
Zapata AI becoming a publicly listed company on the New York Stock
Exchange.
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