Insider Brief
- TAIYI Quantum said its cumulative funding exceeded RMB 1 billion, approximately $140 million, less than a year after its January 2026 founding to support ytterbium-based neutral-atom quantum computing.
- The company is designing its hardware, control systems and software around quantum error correction and fault tolerance, with funding supporting engineering development and system integration.
- TAIYI Quantum reported integrating its first prototype within six months, developing real-time feedback with latency in the tens of microseconds and releasing LUOSHU, an open-source compiler for neutral-atom hardware.
PRESS RELEASE — TAIYI Quantum, a quantum computing company developing ytterbium (Yb) neutral-atom technology, announced that its cumulative funding has exceeded RMB 1 billion (approximately US$140 million) following its latest financing round, less than a year after its founding in January 2026.
The latest round attracted participation from venture capital firms, strategic investors, and institutional funds, bringing the company’s cumulative financing to more than RMB 1 billion.
The funding will support the company’s development of scalable neutral-atom quantum computing systems, with a particular focus on quantum error correction, fault-tolerant architectures, real-time control, and hardware–software integration.
“Quantum computing is fundamentally a long-term systems engineering challenge,” said Zhenghao Fang, Co-founder and CEO of TAIYI Quantum. “Our priority is to translate investment into engineering capabilities, bring together exceptional talent, and build the technological foundations for practical quantum computing.”
Building a Quantum Computing Architecture Around Fault Tolerance
TAIYI Quantum is pursuing an ytterbium-based neutral-atom architecture designed with fault-tolerant quantum computing as its long-term objective.
While neutral-atom platforms offer promising scalability and flexible qubit connectivity, translating physical qubits into reliable logical operations requires advances across quantum error correction, measurement, real-time feedback, and system architecture.
Ytterbium offers several potentially valuable properties for fault-tolerant computing, including long-lived electronic states, flexible qubit encoding options, and opportunities for erasure-aware quantum error correction.
Rather than treating error correction as a later addition, TAIYI Quantum aims to incorporate fault-tolerance requirements into the design of its hardware, control systems, and software stack from the outset.
“Scaling physical qubit numbers alone will not deliver practical quantum computing,” said Dr. Hongbin Liu, Co-founder and CTO of TAIYI Quantum. “The challenge is to build an architecture in which physical qubits, quantum error correction, real-time control, and logical operations work together as an integrated computational system.”
Three Engineering Milestones
Since its founding, TAIYI Quantum has reported progress across three components of its technology platform.
First-generation system integration. The company completed the integration of its first-generation neutral-atom quantum computing prototype within six months, bringing together atomic manipulation, vacuum systems, laser and optical subsystems, measurement electronics, real-time control, and software into a unified experimental platform.
Real-time control and feedback. TAIYI Quantum has developed an initial closed-loop control system incorporating hardware-accelerated processing and feedback capabilities, with reported control latency in the tens-of-microseconds regime. The architecture is being developed to support increasingly demanding operations, including atom rearrangement and future quantum error correction protocols.
Open-source quantum compilation. The company has released LUOSHU, an open-source quantum compiler designed for neutral-atom hardware. LUOSHU emphasizes hardware-aware compilation and software–hardware co-design, addressing constraints such as atom movement, qubit connectivity, and operation scheduling. Its architecture is intended to support closer integration between quantum compilation and real-time hardware execution.
Together, these developments reflect TAIYI Quantum’s focus on integrating hardware, control, and software capabilities required for future fault-tolerant quantum computing systems.
Connecting Quantum Computing with Scientific Applications
Alongside its hardware development, TAIYI Quantum is exploring applications in computational chemistry, materials science, energy, life sciences, and scientific computing.
The company is also investigating how quantum processors could eventually operate alongside artificial intelligence and high-performance computing infrastructure.
These activities aim to identify computational problems that could benefit from future fault-tolerant quantum computers while helping inform the algorithms and architectural capabilities needed to address them.