FlipFlop, founded by Tsinghua PhD, raises hundreds of millions RMB in two months for neutral-atom quantum computing
量子位 · wechat · 2026-10-18
Chinese startup FlipFlop, focused on neutral-atom quantum computing, was founded on July 2 and closed seed and angel rounds totaling hundreds of millions of RMB within months, backed by Source Code Capital, Oasis and CICC.
CEO Mu Qiao, a Tsinghua PhD and CNRS postdoc with first-author Nature papers, turned down a faculty offer from Tsinghua to start the company. The team targets a fault-tolerant architecture with 100 logical qubits and plans an AI-native R&D approach using AI for experiment design, data processing and device control.
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