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Xanadu CEO says AI is speeding work toward a large-scale quantum computer
Xanadu CEO Christian Weedbrook says AI has sped up some of the company’s development work by a year or more.
Xanadu is a Canadian company working to build quantum computers, which use quantum physics to process information.
Weedbrook says AI and quantum computing can work together, with AI helping the team make progress.
Canada’s federal budget named Xanadu as a critical investment, bringing attention to the country’s ambitions to turn research into a competitive industry.
A key challenge is reducing optical loss in systems that use light to carry information.
Xanadu is focusing on hardware milestones as it aims for a large-scale computer in 2029 or 2030.
Weedbrook expects significant revenue opportunities around that time, while low-loss optical components could also serve AI and data centres if commercial sales support the company’s main goal.
Xanadu CEO Christian Weedbrook says artificial intelligence tools have sped up some of the company’s development work by a year or more.
The Canadian quantum computing company is targeting a large-scale quantum computer in 2029 or 2030.
Weedbrook says AI and quantum computing can work together, and that Xanadu uses AI in its development work.
Reducing optical loss is a central technical challenge for scaling quantum computers that use light to carry information.
Weedbrook says Canada’s research base, funding and scientific teams help it attract and retain quantum computing talent.
- Who
- Christian Weedbrook, founder and CEO of Xanadu.
- What
- He says AI tools have sped up some of Xanadu’s development work by a year or more as it works toward a large-scale quantum computer.
- When
- The interview was published on November 13, 2026.
- Where
- Canada. Xanadu is described as a Canadian company.
- Why
- Xanadu uses AI to support the development of a large-scale quantum computer.
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The federal budget mentioned Xanadu as a critical investment alongside Cohere, according to the interviewer.
BNN Bloomberg published its interview with Christian Weedbrook.
Xanadu is targeting a large-scale quantum computer, according to the article.
- CEO
- Christian Weedbrook
- Company
- Xanadu
- AI development boost
- A year or more, Weedbrook said
- Target for large-scale quantum computer
- 2029 or 2030
- Main scaling challenge
- Reducing optical loss
What people are saying
Some of the AI LLMs that we’ve used have really sped up our team’s progress by a year or more, which is quite phenomenal.
Really, we see it as working together, for sure.