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1QBit Qualifies Across Four Capability Streams of Canada’s Defence Drone Initiative Marketplace
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Oct. 13, 2026 – GlobeNewswire Qualification makes the Canadian software company eligible to compete for future Department of National Defence requirements supporting uncrewed systems 1QB Information Technologies Inc. (“1QBit” or the “Company”), a Canadian advanced computing and software company, today announced that it has qualified as a supplier under the Government...
1QBit has been invited to participate in DARPA’s QBI program
April 3, 2025 – DARPA QBI To achieve utility scale quantum computing (USQC), where the benefits of running quantum computations outweigh the costs of doing so, the quantum community must face design trade-offs and development choices. However, obtaining the information required to strategically navigate these decisions is itself an intense R&D problem— one which 1QBit is tackling. Today, HPE...
How RBS Made a Quantum Leap into the Future
July 5, 2020 – The Sunday Times “In the shadow of a giant airship hangar on a defunct navy base in Silicon Valley, Ross McEwan sat down for a presentation about the future. It was 2015, and the then boss of Royal Bank of Scotland already had his hands full repairing the bank’s balance sheet after the financial crisis. Nonetheless, he was transfixed by what the presenter, a bald Canadian...
XrAI Trans Canadian Roll Out To Fight COVID-19
1QBit and Canadian health care providers team up to empower front-line clinicians with Health Canada’s first approved AI tool for radiology in the fight against COVID-19 Health and technology providers have joined forces to deploy XrAI, a machine learning tool that acts as a co-pilot for clinicians to increase accuracy in detecting lung abnormalities associated with diseases such as COVID-19...
1QBit and Saskatchewan Health Authority Announce XrAI Chest Radiography Tool Deployment with Unprecedented Health Canada Regulatory Approval
Radiologist-created AI diagnostic product completes clinical trials, secures regulatory clearance, and goes live in response to the COVID-19 crisis. Vancouver, BC – April 8, 2020 – 1QBit, a world leader in advanced computing and software development, today announced the launch of 1QBit XrAI, a chest radiography AI tool that significantly improves the accuracy and timeliness of diagnosing lung...
Microsoft Partners with 1QBit, Honeywell, IonQ, and QCI on Azure Quantum
Today, Microsoft Quantum announced Azure Quantum, a full-stack, open cloud ecosystem that will bring the benefits of quantum computing to people and organizations around the world. The announcement highlighted the work done by partners such as 1QBit, Honeywell, IonQ, and QCI. "Recently, Microsoft partnered with 1QBit and IonQ to demonstrate end-to-end quantum computing in Azure Quantum. The team...
1QBit to Open Sherbrooke Office in Partnership with Université de Sherbrooke
Company expands to third quantum computing research hub in Canada Vancouver, BC – October 31, 2019 – 1QBit, a world leader in quantum computing software and hardware optimization, today announced that the company will be expanding its Canadian footprint by opening a new office in Sherbrooke with a focus on recruiting Master’s and Ph.D. researchers. With the new location situated near the...
Microsoft and 1QBit Collaborate to Disrupt Materials Innovation with the 1QBit OpenQEMIST Platform and the Microsoft Quantum Development Kit
May 31, 2019 Innovation in materials design is important in a variety of industries, and computer simulation has been routinely used to help accelerate the materials-design process. Accurately predicting the chemical properties of a molecule at the quantum level is key to the design of new materials. But obtaining this information using classical hardware is computationally intensive. And the...
1QBit Contributes to the Upcoming Open Source Release of Microsoft’s Quantum Development Kit
The Microsoft Quantum team announced today that they will fully open-source their Quantum Development Kit, including the Q# compiler and quantum simulators, this summer with the goal of making quantum computing more accessible. With increased accessibility, Microsoft Quantum hopes to further the progress developers can make towards solving the world's most demanding computational challenges. As...
Microsoft Quantum Announces New Collaboration with 1QBit and Other Leading Startups
At the 2018 Quantum for Business conference, Microsoft Quantum announced new partnerships with 1QBit and other leading startups in quantum software and algorithm development. This partnership means that 1QBit researchers and Microsoft researchers will be able to collaborate on quantum computing’s most difficult challenges. 1QBit will also have access to Microsoft’s Quantum Development Kit and...