The future is now. It just booted up.
Unlocking AI’s true potential demands a fundamental rethink of computing itself. At Q.ANT, we believe the future of AI computing runs on light.
Q.ANT is a photonic deep-tech scale-up developing photonic processing solutions that compute natively with light and deliver a scalable alternative to transistor-based systems. Its Light Empowered Native Arithmetics (LENA) architecture delivers analog co-processing power optimised for complex computation and enabling energy-efficient performance for next-generation AI and HPC applications. Q.ANT operates its own Thin-Film Lithium Niobate (TFLN) chip pilot line in collaboration with the Institute for Microelectronics Stuttgart, IMS CHIPS, and is currently shipping its Native Processing Servers to selected partners. Q.ANT was founded by Michael Förtsch in 2018 and is headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany.
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Our Q.ANT values stand for our work and beyond. We aim for the best QUALITY both in our products and in our daily work results. Through our knowledge and imagination, we ANTICIPATE what will be important for us and our customers tomorrow. Due to our natural urge for NOVELTY, we see the status quo as a launching pad for improvement. And, we have internalized that great things are always created as a TEAM.
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Thanks to our investors, Q.ANT closed one of the largest series A funding rounds for photonic computing in Europe to accelerate the commercial rollout of light-based processors addressing AI’s escalating energy and scalability challenges.
The Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR) supports collaborative projects in the field of photonic computing, which address significant societal needs. Q.ANT is involved in these projects as a consortium leader or project partner.
Developing an integrated photonic building block platform based on thin-film lithium niobate (LNOI) for industrial use by advancing the fabrication, structuring, and scalability of LNOI wafers, as well as harnessing the material’s unique properties to realize reproducible, scalable, and flexible photonic integrated circuits.
PhoQuant aims to provide an advantage for the computation of industrially relevant applications. For this purpose, the consortium, under the project leadership of Q.ANT, is developing a new photonic computing architecture that enables a quantum computer with up to 100 qubits.
The aim of this project is to develop a novel platform for a quantum computer in which individual light particles, known as photons, are used as qubits.
