Alice & Bob to Launch $50M Quantum Lab in Paris for Chip Commercialisation
French quantum computing startup Alice & Bob announced plans to open a $50 million laboratory in Paris, accelerating its shift from research to product commercialisation. The new facility, funded from a $103 million private investment round, will support the development and testing of the company’s next-generation quantum chips: Lithium, Beryllium, and Graphene.
Key Highlights:
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Purpose: The lab will prototype and test market-ready quantum processors based on Alice & Bob’s cat qubit technology.
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Infrastructure: The lab will house:
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A nanofabrication cleanroom for chip prototyping.
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A cryostat farm with 20 Bluefors dilution refrigerators for ultra-low temperature testing.
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Quantum Machines’ control hardware to enable experimentation.
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Strategic Partnerships:
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Quantum Machines (Israel): Supplying hardware/software control platforms.
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Bluefors (Finland): Providing cryogenic systems to support scalable quantum research.
Vision and Strategy:
CEO Théau Peronnin stated the company is evolving from pure research to customer-oriented product development:
“Our lab will enable Alice & Bob to create technology that can be tested by actual clients and end users.”
Founded in 2020, Alice & Bob is building fault-tolerant quantum computers that aim to outperform existing architectures in efficiency and energy consumption, using cat qubit error-correction innovations.
The move signals France’s deeper investment in becoming a European hub for quantum technology commercialisation, aligning with broader regional and global efforts to realise practical quantum computing at scale.