The convergence of Quantum with AI
The European Commission is the executive branch of the European Union, not a commercial company; it proposes and enforces EU law and manages the EU budget. In quantum technology it acts as a funder and policy coordinator, principally through the Quantum Flagship launched in 2018 with roughly €1 billion earmarked over ten years, which supports superconducting, trapped-ion, photonic and neutral-atom computing research alongside quantum simulation, sensing and communication. It also backs the EuroQCI initiative to build a quantum-secure communication infrastructure across member states and funds quantum work through the broader Horizon Europe programme.
AI-written profile · not yet reviewed · 3 October 2026
The Quantum Internet Alliance has received €47.5 million from the European Commission. The funding is intended to support construction of a full-stack quantum network prototype.
This could make a metropolitan-scale quantum network testbed available to early application developers within two years.