NVIDIA Unveils Open-Source Ising Quantum AI Models; Jensen Huang Calls AI the Operating System for Quantum Machines

Qubits are highly susceptible to noise, requiring processors to be continuously calibrated and errors to be decoded in real time. Both tasks are major bottlenecks to scaling quantum computers and achieving fault-tolerant computing. NVIDIA is therefore integrating AI into quantum-GPU supercomputing platforms. CEO Jensen Huang said AI would become the control plane and operating system for quantum machines.

On World Quantum Day, April 14, 2026, NVIDIA unveiled its open-source Ising family of models, initially comprising Ising Calibration and Ising Decoding. Company data showed error-correction decoding speeds of up to 2.5 times those of conventional methods and accuracy of up to three times. Adopters include Academia Sinica, the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.