AI is Emerging as Quantum Computing’s Missing Ingredient, NVIDIA-led Research Team Asserts

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• AI is emerging as a critical tool for advancing quantum computing, helping address challenges across hardware design, algorithm compilation, device control, and error correction.
• Researchers report that machine-learning models can optimize quantum hardware and generate more efficient circuits, but face scaling limits due to exponential data requirements and drifting noise conditions.
• The study concludes that long-term progress will likely depend on hybrid systems that combine AI supercomputers with quantum processors to overcome the bottlenecks neither technology can solve alone.

Artificial intelligence may now be the most important tool for solving quantum computing’s most stubborn problems. That is the core argument of a new research review from a 28-author team led by NVIDIA, which reports that AI is beginning to outperform traditional engineering methods in nearly every layer of the quantum-computing stack.

At the same time, the the reverse may also one day prove true: quantum computing could become essential for building the next generation of sustainable AI systems. As AI models expand into trillion-parameter scales and energy constraints tighten, the researchers say a hybrid computing architecture that tightly couples classical AI supercomputers with quantum processors may be unavoidable.8The paper — published in Nature Communications — is yet another sign that the two fields are converging faster than expected. Zooming…