Matt Kinsella runs Infleqtion, a company building quantum computers. The biggest misconception about quantum computing is that it will replace classical computing. It won't.

Quantum processors will sit above GPUs in data centers the same way GPUs sit above CPUs today.

NVIDIA just built the bridge to make this work. It's called NVQ Link, and it changes how we think about the future of compute.

NVIDIA announced NVQ Link in October 2024. It's the bridge between quantum computers and classical GPU clusters. Workloads pass seamlessly between them.

Here's how it works in practice. Infleqtion and NVIDIA solved something called the Anderson Impurity Model - a photovoltaic problem in material science. Parts of it were solved on a GPU cluster. Parts that couldn't be solved by GPUs were solved on Infleqtion's quantum computer.

Then they recombined to give the answer.

This isn't commercially useful yet. But expand that over time and you could be looking at the future data center. One with three layers. CPUs at the bottom for general computing. GPUs in the middle for parallel processing and AI. QPUs at the top for problems that are quantum mechanical in nature.

Workloads come in, get chopped up, each piece goes to the part of the stack best suited to solve it. Then results recombine.

This is already happening. Infleqtion just announced a contract with the Army called Sapient Secure AI for PNT - position, navigation, and timing. It runs their quantum-inspired software on NVIDIA's Jetson edge GPUs.

Small GPUs that don't have much memory.

The software lets them ingest far more streaming data than normal. Video, speed, inertial motion. Then it recreates what GPS gives you - where you are in the world - by extrapolating from all those signals. Without GPS.

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