July 27, 2026 — Multiverse's $570M Round: Quantum Cred or AI Hype?
Multiverse Computing just closed one of the biggest funding rounds ever for a company with 'quantum' in its story — $570 million at a $1.7 billion pre-money valuation — but is it a quantum win or an AI compression story wearing quantum's jacket? Plus: long-lived ytterbium ion states, a cat-state speedup from IonQ, a 2030 post-quantum crypto deadline for contractors, and a theoretical result on the quantum Zeno effect freezing computations as qubit counts grow.
Linked sources: Multiverse Computing Announces Series C Fundraising Targeting up to $570 Million — The Quantum Insider
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