About SandboxAQ
SandboxAQ is a software and AI company, not a hardware maker. It builds what it calls Large Quantitative Models, which are AI models trained on physics, chemistry and scientific data rather than on text, for areas such as drug and materials discovery. It also sells AQtive Guard, a product aimed at cybersecurity and the move to quantum-resistant encryption. It began as a quantum technology group inside Alphabet and became a separate company in 2022. Jack Hidary is chief executive and Eric Schmidt is chairman.
SandboxAQ was founded in 2022 and is based in Palo Alto, CA, United States. It is listed under Quantum Computing, AI Accelerators. Reported funding is $450M Series E (April 2025) at $5.75B valuation.
Compute Technologies
- Quantum Computing
- AI Accelerators
What SandboxAQ works on
Quantum Computing
A quantum computer is a machine that uses the rules of quantum physics to process information. Its basic unit is the qubit. A classical bit is either 0 or 1. A qubit can be in a superposition, a state that combines both, and its measured result is probabilistic.
AI Accelerators
An AI accelerator is a chip, or a part of a chip, designed to run machine learning faster or with less energy than a general-purpose processor. The category includes GPUs, TPUs, neural processing units (NPUs) and chips from many startups.
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