This week I was at NVIDIA GTC DC, where the fusion of Quantum and AI Supercomputing took center stage.
Infleqtion and quantum technology were everywhere. We were mentioned in Jensen Huang’s keynote, featured at the NVIDIA booth with our Sqale quantum computer connected via NVQLink, and of course, our booth was handing out our now-famous Infleqtion “choQolate” bars.
I also joined the ESPN College Gameday–style keynote pregame show as the “Quantum Qirk Herbstreit.”
And yes Jensen made a surprise appearance during our panel, bearing sparkling water and starting a “quantum, quantum, quantum” chant.
As I fly back to Colorado, I’ve been reflecting on an incredible week. But first, credit where it’s due: the fantastic NVIDIA team once again put on a five-star event.
AI and Quantum: A National Imperative
At Infleqtion, our mission is simple: commercialize quantum systems that have real-world impact, strengthening the U.S., U.K., Australia, and our allies from both a national and economic security perspective.
We’ve always believed the future depends on quantum and classical computers working side by side. Quantum amplifies what AI supercomputing can do, and the applications ahead will be extraordinary.
Accelerating the time to seamless integration is critical. That’s where NVQLink comes in.
The Great Handshake Between Quantum and AI Supercomputing
Every great technological story has a moment when two distinct technologies fuse to create something new like when radio waves met electronic circuitry to create wireless communication.
With NVQLink, quantum processors (QPUs) and GPU-accelerated supercomputers can now speak the same language.
It’s a real-time, low-latency link that unlocks a new era of hybrid computing — one where quantum and AI systems operate together as one.
This is the handshake between revolutions — one that will accelerate innovation, reshape industries, and create entirely new markets.
Team Infleqtion at GTC
It was a privilege to have our neutral atom QPU featured in Jensen Huang keynote as part of NVIDIA’s vision for next-generation hybrid computing.
Joining the pregame show to talk about AI, Quantum, and Biology with Patrick Moorhead , Brad Gerstner , Kristina Partsinevelos, George Church , Marc Tessier-Lavigne and Anirudh Devgan was a blast.
And of course the man, the myth, the legend Jensen Huang made that surprise appearance at our panel, bearing sparkling water and starting a “quantum, quantum, quantum” chant.
Our QPU was one of three quantum systems featured at NVIDIA’s booth, one of the launch partners for NVQLink, alongside Quantinuum and Rigetti Computing.
At Infleqtion, we believe neutral atoms are the most promising path to scalable, fault-tolerant quantum systems and tight GPU integration will be key to realizing that vision.
Engineering the Quantum–AI Future
Our collaboration with NVIDIA goes deeper than the stage.
Through NVQLink integration with Infleqtion’s Sqale system, now available via NVIDIA CUDA-Q, we’re enabling hybrid quantum–AI algorithms to run in real time with GPU acceleration.
As our CTO Pranav Gokhale said in our press release:
“For years, quantum processors and supercomputers have existed in silos. Enabling them to operate together in real time removes a major bottleneck and accelerates the research community’s ability to use quantum and AI together.”
Earlier this year, Jensen described Physical AI as the next phase in AI’s evolution — one where interaction with the physical world exponentially expands the training parameter space.
Quantum computing will be central to that shift. It accesses a substrate of reality that’s inaccessible to classical machines, generating unique data that can fuel GPU-accelerated AI workflows.
Together, quantum and AI will unlock breakthroughs across materials science, clean energy, secure communications, and national security.
Physics Drives the Next Great Transformation
Many of you know I love history.
And history tells us that every great economic leap forward has been powered by a leap forward in physics.
In the 1800s, James Clerk Maxwell unified electricity and magnetism — and the result was electric motors, radio, computing, cell phones, the internet….basically every technology we use today.
Today, quantum mechanics is driving a transformation just as profound.
If electromagnetism gave us energy, communication, and computation, quantum will give us precision, security, and intelligence at the atomic scale.
This is how progress really happens: turning the physics that changed how we understand the universe into technologies that change how we live within it.
Infleqtion × NVIDIA
Infleqtion and NVIDIA : building the foundation where quantum and AI evolve together.
