Research cutoff
Sources were gathered through about 28–29 September 2026 (the Europe and Oceania notes say late September / early October). Executive titles, SPAC proceeds, and “scheduled for 2026” installations move quickly. The briefs flag several of those as re-check items. This site does not silently update them.
How the briefs were made
Each note used web search and fetches of government releases, company filings and press, and reputable secondary trackers — Quantum.gov and DOE, Canada.ca / ISED, EuroHPC JU, company IR, PIB India, JETRO, and cross-checks such as The Quantum Insider, Quantum Zeitgeist, and Entangled Future. Secondary aggregators were used to cross-check, not as the preferred source. Claims that could not be confirmed were marked unverified or left out.
The full text, including gap lists and source notes, is published under Deep reads. Region pages are a curated cut: maturity, programmes, notable companies, and labs. The directory is a structured subset of organisations the briefs actually name.
Qubit counts
When a card shows a scale figure, it carries one of four labels:
- Company-asserted — the brief treats the number as the company’s or a partner’s claim.
- Reported — a widely reported system scale or result. Not an audit, and logical-qubit counts are not comparable one-to-one.
- Roadmap — a target that was not confirmed operational at the cutoff. Fujitsu’s 1,000-qubit 2026 install and Archer’s single-qubit demo sit here.
- Contested — the brief says independent verification is missing. Microsoft’s Majorana 1 is the clearest case.
Sampling experiments are not general-purpose computers. Jiuzhang’s photon counts and Zuchongzhi’s supremacy ratios stay in the China section of the Asia brief as research results, not as commercial products. Annealing qubits, notably D-Wave’s Advantage, are not gate-model qubits. The card says so.
What we will not claim
- No EuroHPC-style federation in South America. There is no multinational shared quantum–HPC procurement on that continent. LAQCC and CIQuanta are Brazilian hosts, not a regional authority.
- Mexico does not have a venture-scale quantum industry comparable to the US or Canada. Directories that list dozens of Mexican quantum companies mostly misclassify IT consultancies. SpinQ México distributes Chinese teaching systems.
- China’s “~$15 billion” public funding figure is contested. Western trackers repeat a McKinsey-era estimate; USTC researchers have suggested the true sum may be much lower. The site does not treat it as audited.
- Alibaba and Baidu are not active hardware programmes. Their labs were closed or donated in 2023–24. Both are in the directory marked exited, so the gap is on the record rather than implied. Huawei’s public posture is software and simulation.
- Zhongke Wanke and QuantaLab (Korea) were not verified as significant quantum companies under those names. They are not in the directory.
- New Zealand has no known standalone quantum-computer builder. Papua New Guinea and the Pacific islands had no identified commercial quantum industry at the cutoff.
- Russia appears only as a sanctions-context note. State qubit claims are not treated as peers of commercial clouds.
- The news desk does not invent posts. News stays empty of fabricated headlines. The briefs are the record.
Early markets, said plainly
Argentina is strong science and weak industry. Chile’s Quantü project is a three-year academic build, not a product. Colombia is a policy line plus an ion-trap effort still under construction. Peru is a community node. Uruguay’s industry is essentially Quantum-South. Sweden, Norway, Portugal, Czechia, Luxembourg, and the Baltics are described in the Europe brief as hosts, research centres, or sparse commercial markets — not as hidden unicorns.
News versus the record
Deep reads are the research record. The news desk is not publishing yet, and it does not fill itself with sample headlines. Items on Learn are curated from the briefs.
The public site is https://quantumbrief.ca. The daily digest form sends an address to the list on this site. Mail is meant to come from updates@quantumbrief.ca. That list is not confirmed live yet — if the form cannot save an address, write to that inbox instead. This site does not claim that issues are already going out.
Data
The directory is public. These files are the same records the pages use. They are a structured cut of the five briefs as of the 3 October 2026 revision, not a live feed.
- companies.json · companies.csv — also browsable by modality and on Compare
- programmes.json · programmes.csv — each programme has a page under Programmes
- events.json · events.csv — rendered on the timeline
- people.json — executives with a title checked on a public company page, listed on People
Site search covers companies, programmes, modalities, people, and deep-read headings: Search.
Blank website, funding, or headcount fields mean the brief did not support a figure, or an official page was not confirmed. Do not read a blank as zero.
Not advice
Listings, funding figures, and roadmaps are not investment advice, not an offer of securities, and not a statement that a machine has reached useful fault tolerance. Where the briefs disagree on a title — Pasqal’s CEO is the example — the directory keeps both attributions and tells you to confirm.