Quantinuum Announces Updates to Quantum Natural Language Processing Toolkit λambeq, Enhancing Accessibility
λambeq update introduces many new important features to provide researchers and developers with more options and flexibility in turning sentences into quantum circuits
Oxford, United Kingdom, March 29th, 2022 — The quantum natural language processing team at Quantinuum, the world’s leading integrated quantum computing company, has released a major update to its open-source Python library and toolkit, λambeq (pronounced “Lambek”).
λambeq converts any natural language sentence into a quantum circuit, ready to be realized on a quantum computer. The new release has been designed for a growing community of researchers, developers and users versed in quantum natural language processing (QNLP) and natural language processing (NLP). Natural language processing markets are projected to grow 27% annually over the next five years.
The update will support the growth of QNLP and potential future applications such as automated dialogue, text mining, language translation, text-to-speech, language generation and bioinformatics.
Quantinuum’s Head of Applied Quantum NLP Research, Dr. Dimitrios Kartsaklis, said: “Since we launched λambeq, we have received valuable feedback from a rapidly growing community of users, and many of the new features available today reflect this. The new version of λambeq now comes, for example, with a native state-of-the-art parser that has been fully integrated with the toolkit. Additionally, the toolkit is now equipped with a training package that supports popular supervised learning libraries, such as PyTorch, to help users efficiently train NLP tasks using the quantum circuits and tensor networks that λambeq generates. This update is all about accessibility – and crucially, reducing the time it takes to achieve results.”
Additionally, and importantly, λambeq’s new neural-based CCG parser, Bobcat, is trained on a large human-annotated corpus of syntactic derivations. It is fully integrated with the toolkit, simplifying the installation process, and presents improved state-of-the-art parsing performance. The previous parser remains part of the toolkit, and for the benefit of the community, Bobcat will also be released as a separate stand-alone open-source tool in due course.
The new update is equipped with a command-line interface, making most of the toolkit's functionality available to users with no programming knowledge. It also contains a new supervised training module designed to simplify the process of training parameterized quantum circuits and tensor networks in a machine learning setup.
λambeq is the first quantum NLP and computational linguistics toolkit. It can convert a sentence into a quantum circuit that inherits its entanglement structure from the sentence's syntactic structure. This construction is motivated by formal mathematical correspondences between mathematical models of grammar and quantum protocols, as established by senior researchers at Quantinuum, Chief Scientist Prof. Bob Coecke and Head of AI Prof. Stephen Clark.
With this update, λambeq becomes more flexible in providing users with more options on the quantum circuits it can generate. It allows manipulation of syntax diagrams and makes it simpler to define the quantum circuits from the syntactic structure.
The visualization of λambeq's output has also been improved, and documentation has been expanded with numerous examples to remove the barrier to entry for general users.
Where to find λambeq
- λambeq has been released as a conventional Python repository on GitHub and is available here https://github.com/CQCL/lambeq
- More details about the new release can be found here https://cqcl.github.io/lambeq/release_notes.html
- The documentation and tutorials can be found here: https://cqcl.github.io/lambeq/index.html
About Quantinuum
Quantinuum is the world’s largest integrated quantum computing company, formed by the combination of Honeywell Quantum Solutions’ world leading hardware and Cambridge Quantum’s class leading middleware and applications.
Quantinuum employs over 400 people including 300 scientists, at eight sites in the US, Europe, and Japan.
Science led and enterprise driven, Quantinuum accelerates quantum computing and the development of applications across chemistry, cybersecurity, finance, and optimization. Quantinuum’s focus is to create scalable and commercial quantum solutions to solve the world’s most pressing problems, in fields such as energy, logistics, climate change, and health.
Quantinuum’s open-source developer toolkit TKET provides platform-inclusive access to the world’s leading quantum hardware and simulators and enhances the performance of every Quantinuum product, including cybersecurity key-generation platform Quantum Origin, quantum computational chemistry and materials science package EUMEN, and λambeq, Quantinuum's quantum natural language processing and computational linguistics toolkit.
Quantinuum’s H1 generation quantum computer, Powered by Honeywell, is one of the most advanced in the world and was the first to pass the industry standard quantum volume 2048 benchmark. Quantinuum is committed to increasing the quantum volume of its commercial quantum computers by orders of magnitude each year for the next five years.
About Quantinuum
Quantinuum, the world’s largest integrated quantum company, pioneers powerful quantum computers and advanced software solutions. Quantinuum’s technology drives breakthroughs in materials discovery, cybersecurity, and next-gen quantum AI. With over 500 employees, including 370+ scientists and engineers, Quantinuum leads the quantum computing revolution across continents.
BROOMFIELD, Colo., September 11, 2026 - Quantinuum Inc. (Nasdaq: QNT) (the “Company”), a leading quantum computing company, today announced that members of its management team will participate in the Piper Sandler 5th Annual Growth Frontiers Conference, taking place September 14–16, 2026, in Nashville, Tennessee.
Quantinuum will participate in a fireside chat and host one-on-one meetings with investors during the conference.
About Quantinuum
Quantinuum is a leading quantum computing company offering a full-stack platform designed to make quantum computing deployable in real-world environments. The company has commercially deployed multiple generations of trapped-ion based quantum systems built on the well-established QCCD architecture, which it has implemented with novel designs and capabilities to achieve the industry’s highest accuracy levels based on average two-qubit gate fidelity. Quantinuum has active engagements with market leaders across pharmaceuticals, material science, financial services, and government and industrial markets, as well as academic and research institutions globally.
The company has a global workforce of approximately 800 employees, including top scientists and researchers. Over 70% of its technology team holds PhDs or Master’s degrees. Quantinuum’s headquarters is in Broomfield, Colorado, with additional facilities across the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Japan, Qatar, and Singapore.
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- The federal funding supports critical R&D and U.S. quantum semiconductor manufacturing capabilities needed to scale fault-tolerant trapped-ion quantum computing.
- Company partnering with GlobalFoundries to fabricate next-gen ion traps and control electronics, and Monarch Quantum to develop and manufacture reliable lasers and optical components.
Washington, D.C. – September 8, 2026 – Quantinuum (Nasdaq: QNT), a leading quantum computing company, today announced it has finalized an agreement with the U.S. Department of Commerce’s CHIPS Research and Development Office for $100 million in federal funding deployed through the CHIPS and Science Act. The award, which follows a letter of intent announced in May, supports R&D and U.S. quantum semiconductor manufacturing capabilities needed to deploy large-scale, fault-tolerant trapped-ion quantum computers.
Quantinuum, which was the only company with a trapped-ion based architecture to be awarded CHIPS R&D funding, develops the world’s most accurate commercial1 computers with industry-leading error correction fidelity.2 The company leverages established semiconductor manufacturing processes to help ensure reliability, repeatability, and scalability of the company’s current and future quantum computers.
“This award is a validation of Quantinuum’s leadership in trapped-ion quantum computing," said Dr. Rajeeb Hazra, President and CEO of Quantinuum. “Together with our domestic partners, we are building the technology and supply-chain foundation needed to scale fault-tolerant systems and strengthen America's leadership in this strategically important field.”
The award will support R&D that the company expects to help strengthen and diversify its supply chain, adding onshore partners GlobalFoundries and Monarch Quantum. GlobalFoundries will be one of several of Quantinuum’s foundries enlisted to fabricate its next-generation ion traps and other electronics, specifically focused on using 300mm wafer technology; Monarch Quantum plans to develop and manufacture scalable, reliable lasers and optical components required for Quantinuum’s trapped-ion systems.
“As quantum computing moves closer to commercial scale, manufacturing will be critical to unlocking its full potential,” said Tim Breen, CEO of GlobalFoundries. “GlobalFoundries is proud to partner with Quantinuum to help scale their trapped-ion technology. By bringing our expertise in high-volume, differentiated semiconductor manufacturing, we're helping create a path to more scalable, reliable quantum hardware and advancing the next generation of American innovation.”
“The road to large-scale, trapped-ion quantum computers relies on moving away from complex, sprawling optical setups to scalable, reliable integrated photonics engines," said Dr. Timothy Day, CEO of Monarch Quantum. "We are honored to expand our partnership with Quantinuum to advance their hardware roadmap and to help strengthen U.S. leadership in quantum computing manufacturing and supply chain resilience.”
Together, these efforts are intended to reduce system complexity and improve component robustness, reliability, and reproducibility, ultimately supporting the continued scaling of trapped-ion quantum computers, while strengthening domestic capability across critical photonics and semiconductor manufacturing.
About Quantinuum
Quantinuum is a leading quantum computing company offering a full-stack platform designed to make quantum computing deployable in real-world environments. The company has commercially deployed multiple generations of trapped-ion based quantum systems built on the well-established QCCD architecture, which it has implemented with novel designs and capabilities to achieve the industry’s highest accuracy levels based on average two-qubit gate fidelity.3 Quantinuum has active engagements with market leaders across pharmaceuticals, material science, financial services, and government and industrial markets, as well as academic and research institutions globally. The company has a global workforce of over 800 employees, including top scientists and researchers. Quantinuum’s headquarters is in Broomfield, Colorado, with additional facilities across the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Japan, Qatar, and Singapore. For more information, please visit www.quantinuum.com.
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1 Based on physical two-qubit gate fidelity as of December 31, 2025, according to the 2025 Ransford et al. study.
2 As of February 25, 2026, according to the 2026 Dasu et al. study.
3 As of December 31, 2025.
BROOMFIELD, Colo., September 4, 2026 - Quantinuum Inc. (Nasdaq: QNT) (the “Company”), a leading quantum computing company, today announced that members of its management team will participate in the Bernstein 23rd Annual Pan-European Strategic Decisions Conference, taking place September 9–10, 2026, in London, United Kingdom.
Quantinuum will participate in a fireside chat and host one-on-one meetings with investors during the conference.
About Quantinuum
Quantinuum is a leading quantum computing company offering a full-stack platform designed to make quantum computing deployable in real-world environments. The company has commercially deployed multiple generations of trapped-ion based quantum systems built on the well-established QCCD architecture, which it has implemented with novel designs and capabilities to achieve the industry’s highest accuracy levels based on average two-qubit gate fidelity. Quantinuum has active engagements with market leaders across pharmaceuticals, material science, financial services, and government and industrial markets, as well as academic and research institutions globally.
The company has a global workforce of approximately 800 employees, including top scientists and researchers. Over 70% of its technology team holds PhDs or Master’s degrees. Quantinuum’s headquarters is in Broomfield, Colorado, with additional facilities across the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Japan, Qatar, and Singapore.
Contacts
Investor & Media Contact
Shub Mukherjee - Investor Contact - investors@quantinuum.com
Aaron Sorenson - Media Contact - press@quantinuum.com