Bengaluru, 11 March

The Karnataka government on Wednesday announced the installation of QpiAI Indus, a 25-qubit quantum computing system, at the Quantum Computing Center of Excellence at the Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Dharwad, and IIIT-Raichur.

The installation will be QpiAI’s second deployment in Karnataka, strengthening the State’s growing quantum ecosystem and expanding access to quantum computing capabilities for academia and industry in India, it said.

According to an official statement, the initiative, under the Local Economy Acceleration Programme (LEAP), aligns with the State’s efforts to build next-generation technology infrastructure under the Karnataka Quantum Roadmap.

"The QpiAI Indus system will be leveraged for educational use, supporting curriculum development, hands-on student training, and faculty-led research as well as commercial workloads, enabling enterprises and innovators to experiment with and apply quantum computing to real-world problems," it said.