Nvidia launches open-source AI models for quantum computing

SANTA CLARA, Calif. - Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) announced today the release of Ising, a family of open-source AI models designed to address quantum processor calibration and error correction challenges, according to a company press release. The move reinforces Nvidia’s position as a prominent player in the semiconductor industry, with the company commanding a market capitalization of $4.67 trillion and posting revenue growth of 65% over the last twelve months.

The Ising family includes two main components. Ising Calibration is a vision language model that automates quantum processor calibration, reducing the time required from days to hours. Ising Decoding consists of two variants of a 3D convolutional neural network optimized for speed or accuracy in quantum error correction.

According to Nvidia’s statement, Ising Decoding delivers performance up to 2.5 times faster and three times more accurate than pyMatching, the current open-source industry standard for quantum error correction decoding.

Several institutions have adopted the models. Ising Calibration is being used by Atom Computing, Academia Sinica, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Infleqtion, IonQ, IQM Quantum Computers, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s Advanced Quantum Testbed, and the U.K. National Physical Laboratory.

Ising Decoding has been deployed by Cornell University, Infleqtion, IQM Quantum Computers, Sandia National Laboratories, University of California San Diego, UC Santa Barbara, University of Chicago, University of Southern California, and Yonsei University.

The models complement Nvidia’s CUDA-Q software platform for hybrid quantum-classical computing and integrate with the NVQLink QPU-GPU hardware interconnect. Nvidia is providing workflow documentation and training data alongside NIM microservices to enable developers to customize models for specific hardware architectures.

The models are available on GitHub, Hugging Face, and build.nvidia.com. They join Nvidia’s portfolio of open models, which includes Nemotron for agentic systems, Cosmos for physical AI, and BioNeMo for biomedical research.

Analyst firm Resonance projects the quantum computing market will exceed $11 billion in 2030.

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