This is your The Quantum Stack Weekly podcast.

You’re listening to The Quantum Stack Weekly, and I’m Leo – that’s Learning Enhanced Operator – coming to you from a lab where the air smells faintly of liquid nitrogen, hot electronics, and unreasonable ambition.

Today’s story starts with a quiet announcement that landed less than a day ago: Nu Quantum, a startup in Cambridge, just raised a $60 million Series A to build what they call an “Entanglement Fabric” for quantum data centers. Nu Quantum’s goal is deceptively simple: instead of one monolithic quantum computer, stitch many smaller processors together with photonic links into a single distributed machine. Think less lone supercomputer, more quantum cloud.

If classical AI today is a city of GPUs humming in dark data halls, Nu Quantum wants to turn those halls into constellations of quantum nodes, each one a small device, all sharing entanglement like a nervous system flashing signals across a body. That’s a genuine step beyond today’s “one box, one chip” model, where scaling means cramming more qubits into a single cryostat until you hit a wall of wiring, heat, and error rates.

Here’s why this matters. Our current quantum processors are powerful but fragile. They’re trapped in steel cylinders at millikelvin temperatures, shielded from the slightest vibration. To reach fault tolerance, we need thousands – eventually millions – of physical qubits. Doing that on a single chip is like trying to build an entire city inside one skyscraper. Nu Quantum’s networking layer lets us instead build neighborhoods and connect them with fiber: modular, swappable, upgradeable.

Technically, their Entanglement Fabric is a photonic quantum network: interfaces that turn stationary qubits in a processor into flying qubits – photons – then route those photons through fiber to another processor, where they’re reabsorbed and entangled. The trick is doing this with high fidelity and high rate. If the photons are too noisy or too rare, your “fabric” looks more like a moth-eaten sweater.

According to Nu Quantum, this architecture is designed to work across multiple qubit types – superconducting circuits, trapped ions, neutral atoms. That interoperability is the real upgrade over current point solutions. Instead of betting on a single hardware winner, they’re building the backplane that lets all of them talk, share error correction, and scale as one logical machine.

As I watch markets swing and climate systems wobble, I see the same pattern: complex, distributed systems where local choices ripple globally. In a way, our world already behaves like a noisy quantum network; we’re just now building computers that are honest about it.

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