Milton Keynes-based Quantum Links AI Limited confirms successful execution of QAOA and logistics optimisation workloads on Rigetti Cepheus-1-108Q via AWS Braket, marking a significant step toward commercial deployment of enterprise quantum computing.
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MILTON KEYNES, UK — 25 June 2026 — Quantum Links AI, the UK-based intelligent hybrid quantum-classical orchestration platform, today announced the successful live execution of quantum workloads on a real 108-qubit quantum processor, marking a major technical milestone in the company's development and validating its core platform architecture.
The company confirmed that its platform successfully routed and executed workloads — including a QAOA (Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm) Max-Cut benchmark and a Quantum Logistics Optimisation problem — on the Rigetti Cepheus-1-108Q quantum processing unit (QPU) via Amazon Web Services' Braket quantum computing service. The execution returned real task IDs and hardware measurement results, confirming end-to-end operation of the platform's intelligent routing engine on live quantum infrastructure.
The Access Problem Quantum Links AI Is Solving
Quantum computing hardware from IBM, Google, AWS, and Microsoft is commercially available today. Yet enterprise adoption remains at just 13%, with the vast majority of businesses unable to access quantum capabilities due to the requirement for PhD-level quantum physics expertise. Quantum Links AI was founded to eliminate this barrier entirely.
The company's platform acts as an intelligent orchestration layer between enterprise businesses and quantum hardware providers. It automatically analyses computational tasks — such as logistics routing, financial portfolio optimisation, and molecular simulation — determines whether quantum processing will deliver a meaningful advantage, and routes the workload to the optimal hardware without requiring any quantum expertise from the end user.
"This milestone confirms that our platform does exactly what we built it to do," said Tariq Syed, CEO and Co-Founder of Quantum Links AI. "A business user submits a problem. Our engine decides whether quantum or classical computing is the right tool. The job runs on real quantum hardware. The user gets a result. No quantum expertise required. That is the access layer the enterprise market has been waiting for."
Technical Significance
The achievement represents the completion of Phase 3 of the company's development roadmap, following the earlier completion of its core orchestration engine and hardware integration phases. The platform has now been validated across more than 20 computational benchmarks, with live hardware execution confirmed on a 108-qubit Rigetti processor — one of the most capable gate-based quantum systems currently available via cloud.
Dr. Junaid Zafar, CTO , commented: "Running QAOA on real quantum hardware is not a trivial achievement. It requires the full stack to work correctly — problem encoding, circuit compilation, hardware submission, result interpretation, and classical post-processing — all orchestrated automatically. The fact that our platform handled this end-to-end, without manual intervention, is the proof point we needed."
The platform is built on over 33,000 lines of production-quality Python code and integrates with leading quantum frameworks including Cirq, PennyLane, and Qiskit, as well as classical frameworks PyTorch and TensorFlow. It is designed to be hardware-agnostic, supporting IBM Quantum, AWS Braket, Azure Quantum, and Google Quantum AI.
Commercial Momentum
Alongside the technical milestone, Quantum Links AI has secured a signed Letter of Interest from a Cambridge-based life sciences company for molecular simulation trials, and is in active discussions with financial services firms regarding quantum-powered risk and optimisation applications.
The company is currently raising funds, with proceeds earmarked for advanced benchmarking, enterprise API development, and onboarding of its first commercial pilot customers. The raise is targeted at angel investors and early-stage funds with an interest in deep tech and quantum computing.
Market Context
The global quantum computing market is projected to reach approximately $20 billion by 2030 (MarketsandMarkets, 2025), with the quantum AI and optimisation sub-segment growing at a compound annual growth rate of 37.5% (Global Insight Services, 2025). The UK government has committed £2.5 billion to quantum technologies through its National Quantum Strategy, positioning the UK as a global hub for quantum innovation.
Quantum Links AI is positioned at the intersection of this market opportunity — providing the software middleware layer that connects enterprise businesses to quantum hardware, without requiring them to become quantum experts.
About Quantum Links AI
Quantum Links AI is an intelligent hybrid quantum-classical orchestration platform built for enterprise. The platform automatically routes computational tasks to the optimal processor — classical or quantum — based on workload characteristics, delivering performance improvements for optimisation, simulation, and machine learning workloads without requiring quantum expertise. Founded and self-funded by Tariq Syed and Dr. Junaid Zafar, the company is headquartered in Milton Keynes, UK.
For more information, visit www.quantumlinks.ai
CONTACT
Enquiries: Tariq Syed, CEO Email: tariq@quantumlinks.ai
Web: www.quantumlinks.ai
Contact Info:
Name: Tariq G N Syed
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Organization: Quantum Links AI Limited
Address: 3 Braunston Woughton Park, Milton Keynes, England MK6 3AT, United Kingdom
Phone: +44-7989-401395
Website: https://www.quantumlinks.ai
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