AWS Center for Quantum Computing

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A research organization inside Amazon Web Services, established in 2019 and based in Pasadena, California, near the Caltech campus. Its hardware work centers on superconducting circuits, notably bosonic cat qubits in which a logical qubit is encoded in an oscillator driven so that bit-flip errors are exponentially suppressed, an approach aimed at reducing the overhead of fault-tolerant error correction; the group has also published on classical simulation of quantum circuits and on control hardware. It employs both experimentalists and theorists, including teams working on quantum algorithms and error-correction theory, and it feeds hardware research into AWS's Braket quantum cloud service.

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Headquarters: Pasadena, California, USA
Founded: 2019
Status: Public

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California Signs Fusion Legislation and Announces $30 Million Quantum Investment

California enacted fusion-related legislation and announced a $30 million state investment in quantum information science. The allocation will feed into the state's existing quantum research hubs at UC Berkeley and UCLA, workforce programs, and industry collaborations with Google Quantum AI and the AWS Center for Quantum Computing.

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Within two years, the $30 million could fund a coordinated quantum technician certification pipeline across UC Berkeley, UCLA, Google Quantum AI, and the AWS Center for Quantum Computing, producing California's first formal cohort of industry-ready quantum support engineers.

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