A new UK initiative invites proposals for high-impact experiments on Google’s latest hardware—aiming to accelerate real-world quantum use cases.
The UK’s National Quantum Computing Centre (NQCC) and Google Quantum AI have launched a program that gives UK researchers a pathway to run experiments on Google’s Willow quantum processor. The initiative is structured around proposal-based access (researchers and consortia apply with project ideas), with the intent to push beyond demos and into practical, high-impact experiments.
The NQCC frames the collaboration as aligned with broader UK strategy efforts and positioned to strengthen the UK research ecosystem by pairing national lab coordination with frontier industrial quantum hardware.
Conclusion:
This is a big “doors-open” move: it lowers friction for teams who don’t have their own bleeding-edge processors, and it can concentrate UK talent on experiments that actually stress-test the usefulness of near-term quantum devices.
