IBM Selected for DARPA Quantum Benchmarking Initiative Stage C, Advancing Toward 2029 Fault-Tolerant System — BigGo Finance

International Business Machines Corporation (IBM, NYSE: IBM) announced it has been selected to advance to Stage C of the Quantum Benchmarking Initiative (QBI), a program led by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). This means IBM’s quantum hardware, technology, and systems engineering solutions will undergo deeper hands-on testing and validation by an independent team of experts to assess whether the company can deliver an industrially valuable fault-tolerant quantum computer by 2033.

Jay Gambetta, IBM’s Director of Research and IBM Fellow, said that advancing to QBI Stage C validates IBM’s strength in its fault-tolerant quantum computing development roadmap. He noted that IBM expects to deliver its first fault-tolerant system in 2029 and plans to continue expanding the commercial value of quantum computing beyond that point. He looks forward to collaborating with DARPA’s expert team to move the review of fault-tolerant quantum computing solutions into the…